We were the inaugural article in what was to be an entire journal dedicated to surprising/odd results. The salmon paper went through a pretty solid peer review as part of publication in JSUR, so we felt good sending it there.

Our paper came out and got a lot of attention, which was good press for the journal. After that the JSUR founders found that they didn't have much time available and the journal folded a few years later. In the end, we were the only paper it published.