'What in the heck was that?': Fisherman shocked to haul in long-nosed chimaera 
By Jen White CA Source: CBC News 8/22/2020
Jen White
A fisherman got quite the fright recently when he hauled in a strange creature with his catch.

Garry Goodyear, from the town of Templeman, N.L., on the north side of Bonavista Bay, was fishing for turbot on the Grand Banks last week.

He said the nets were down about 460 fathoms deep — more than 800 metres — and when the crew hauled them up later that afternoon, they all got a shock.

"We're hauling away, and by and by, I seen this coming around the roller. I said, 'Good God! What in the heck was that?'" Goodyear said.

"I've never seen nothing like that before!"
 

Goodyear said he went to grab the nearly metre-long fish and didn't know what to do with it.

"I thought it was a platypus, because he had that big snout on it," he said.

"It looked like he had wings, and his nose was, it was almost like rubber. I guess it was like cartilage."

Goodyear said no one on board could identify the dead creature.

"I brought it into the fish plant, to the wharf where we offloaded, and nobody in there knew — haven't seen it before," he said.

Goodyear took some photos and later posted one on Facebook, to see if anyone could identify the creature.

 
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