A Very Weird Sea Creature

[james7]

I mentioned this "creature" in my fishing report - "A Great Day ... and Some Weird Catches Too".

I have no idea what it is.

It was caught down near the Hump in about 60m.

"Flatty rock" in his reply/post said:

that long hairy thing is called a tuna kate for memory,you often see heaps of them out at browns at night time, we were out at heatons a few weeks back well after dark and had heaps of these floating down in the current, was told there called tuna kates!!

I tried a search but couldn't find anything.

And this pretty thing was caught in the same area. Is it some sort of perch?

"jewiehaven" in his reply/post said:

That "thing with the beauty spot" is in fact a black finned perch and they are tasy as all hell.

Any other ideas? Are they correct?

Cheers

Peter

Edited August 5, 2009 by peterS

[FlighHigh]

I mentioned this "creature" in my fishing report - "A Great Day ... and Some Weird Catches Too".

I have no idea what it is.

It was caught down near the Hump in about 60m.

"Flatty rock" in his reply/post said:

I tried a search but couldn't find anything.

Hi Peter try Tunicate

Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunicate

Cheers

Glen

Edited August 3, 2009 by FlighHigh

[yockman]

Blueye eat them!

[gambit]

I am not sure whether it is the "tunicates" you see on top at Browns? Possibly so, but on the weekend (very wide off Stanwell/Wollongong area) we saw lots of things that turned out to be "salps". At one points we tangled one up on the jig, which was a chain of salps about 15-20mtrs long. Very sea-serpent like!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salp

The chain we tangled up with was very much like the one in the photo. From what we could feel when we were jigging down deep, there were thousands of them around. Very strange...

Cheers,

Bob.

(at first I thought it was a pyrosoma - as we have seen long chains of these in the past as well)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrosoma

[james7]

Thanks for the pm Gordon identifying this as a butterfly perch.

Thanks also Glen and Bob for helping with the "weird" creature.

I think it must be a pyrosoma as it looks very similar to these photos I found.

Cheers

Peter

[squid hunter]

some weird looking creatures there peterS

regards

Squid Hunter