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What Fish Is This?


mrmoshe

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Big mysterious fish beached in Tasmania, Australia [

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A family fom Bruny Island, south of Hobart, is waiting for the CSIRO to officially identify a strange fish which has washed up on a local beach.

Jenny Martyn’s daughter was with a group of people who found a large dead fish floating in shallow water at Adventure Bay yesterday.

The fish is around two metres in length, shaped like an eel, with a blunt face, huge eye and a dorsal fin that runs the length of its body from head to tail.

Mrs Martyn believes it is a rare crested band fish which lives around 1,000 metres underwater, but she has put it in the freezer until scientists can have a look.

“We’re waiting for them to get in contact with us to go from there,” she said.

“We’d like to find out a bit more about the fish, where its actually originally found and possibly why it’s come into Adventure Bay.”

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There's probably no great mystery on how it floated into the bay -

It most likely arrived on the back of a trawler as "by catch"

Then dumped back into the sea dead, due to its lack of commercial value or

because the boats license is not endorsed for scale fish.

Jason

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