Dead Alien Fish Spotted at MacRitchie Reservoir

AsiaOne ^ | FEBRUARY 17, 2021 | Ang Qing

[nickcarraway]

The alligator gar is native to North America and can grow to a length of 2.5m.

[Trumpet 1]

Remind me to go swimming in a pool and not in a lake. Geesh...Alligators are not my friends.

[Celtic Conservative]

That’s for the asian carp, jerks!

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[dowcaet]

No kidding. This thing looks downright scary.

[BenLurkin]

[cockroach_magoo]

Apparently the author didn’t get the memo...

This was NOT an alien fish, it was merely undocumented. And, from the looks of it, probably a dreamer.

[Flick Lives]

Jurassic Perch

[Amberdawn]

Poor Gar, it probably died of pollution.

[Born to Conserve]

Gar.

[cld51860]

Looks like those “skull crawlers” from the movie “Kong -Skull Island.”

[GardenerForLife]

I grew up in NC and we had them in all the lakes and rivers. I remember the local bait shop had one mounted on the wall. Never heard of them bothering anybody though.

[CurlyDave]

...Never heard of them bothering anybody though...

Just looking at pictures of that thing bothers me.

[piasa]

American indians sometimes fashioned the armored scaly skin of alligator gar into quivers for their arrows and used the heavy scales as arrow points.

[piasa]

In life they are actually rather handsome, well-colored fish, albeit with toothy grins.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Turn about is fair play.

[jcon40]

2.5 meters in North America?

So that would be like 8 feet in England ?

C’mon man

[Nachoman]

And also the snakeheads.

[TigersEye]

[CurlyDave]

Note that in Singapore they can still call the damned thing an “alien” fish.

That is no longer possible in Biden’s America. A piraña is nothing but an “undocumented” fish.

[ro_dreaming]

That’s a gar, not an alligator. It’s a fish, but a very prehistoric lookin’ sucker. Used to catch them in Kemah/Clear Lake area when I was a kid (none that big, of course).

Always threw them back if they made it to shore, usually cut the line as soon as we knew for sure what it was.