In 1967 the Women's Auxiliary of Tocumwal Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture decided that Tocumwal needed something different to put the town on the map. Four years prior the Chamber investigated the cost of the giant codfish and the attraction for tourists as compared to the "Big Banana" and "The Dog on the Tuckerbox".

Kathryn (Trixie )Moore, Alice Johnson (later Gibson) and Lorna Nash worked for months to raise the three thousand pounds. They ran numerous street stalls, dances, card nights and many raffles to get the money.

The site selected for the giant cod and boomerang was nearing completion. Two concrete blocks had been provided as a base to which the giant cod fish could be bolted and the giant boomerang only needed painting prior to erection. It was suggested an information plaque on the Murray Cod also be erected.

The giant cod is 6.4m long, 2.29m high and 1.7m wide, and the weight is 204kgs, and was to be illuminated from the inside. A top line Melbourne commercial modelling artist created the design and it was carefully constructed for scale, colour and proportion.

The Fish was made by the Duralite Company in Melbourne and constructed of fibre glass. Mouldings were taken off an eight section mould of the original plaster sculpture. It's skeleton is a fabrication of steel truss and strutting.

The Fish was first erected at the swimming pool in Murray Street which was then a part of the Boomerang Way and the Newell Highway. It was later moved to its present site at the start of Deniliquin Road, on the foreshore reserve.

It's colouring came from spray painting a base then hand painting on the spots. Because little was known about this NEW material ~Fibre glass~ in 1967 it took many months to finish the process and in that time the big banana was set up in Queensland so that Tocumwal was the second "Big Thing" to go on display.

Over the years it has had many refurbishment's. In latter years the wire mesh and barbed wire surrounds that had enclosed the fish for many years were removed and it now stands proudly on the foreshore fall to see.

Today the fish has become an icon that many people will refer to having seen in their travels. Over the years, attempt were made to name the fish but the people of Tocumwal still refer to it as just simply "The Fish".