Posted on 11/29/2021 11:32:39 AM PST by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK..................
Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A visitor to a San Diego beach snapped photos when he came across something unusual -- a deep sea-dwelling Pacific footballfish washed up on the sand.
Jay Beiler said he thought initially that the creature he spotted at Black's Beach, in the Torrey Pines area of San Diego, was a jellyfish.
"Then I went and looked at it a little more carefully, and some other people were gathered around it, too, and then I saw that it was this very unusual fish," Beiler told KNSD-TV.
Beiler estimated the creature was about a foot long.
"I have never seen anything quite like this before," Beiler said. "You know, I go to the beach fairly often, so I'm familiar with the territory, but I've never seen an organism that looked quite as fearsome as this."
Ben Frable, collection manager for the marine vertebrate collection at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the creature was a Pacific footballfish, a deep-sea dwelling species of anglerfish.
"This is one of the larger species of anglerfish, and it's only been seen a few times here in California, but it's found throughout the Pacific Ocean," Frable said.
He said the fish is only the second member of its species to be found on a San Diego beach after another was discovered in 2001.
Frable said researchers attempted to find the fish on Black's Beach, but it most likely was carried back out to sea by the tides before they could locate it.
"Because they're so uncommonly found, every single one of those provides valuable information, like data for studying the science of fishes, but also for learning more about our environment in California," Frable told KFMB-TV.
Spotted thousands of those things! They are here in so cal right now, fresh. Have you tried to get some shipped?
Try calling these guys.
https://www.chulaseafood.com/
Good luck
Better keep your yorkie on the leash...
I will find a way to work this into the next comedy skit.
Then you have the wrong government...................
How do you catch a Football Fish?
Over your shoulder with both hands.
What do you do once you catch a Football Fish?
Tuck it away and run like hell.
What do you do once you have cooked the Football Fish?
You throw it hard into the ground and dance in front of the cameras......................
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