Rare anglerfish spotted on San Diego beach 
By LaMonica Peters US Source: cbs8 11/23/2021
LaMonica Peters
Credit: Jay Beiler
Local scientists are releasing more information about a rare fish recently seen at Blacks Beach.

Researchers say the fish usually lives thousands of feet deep in the Pacific Ocean and they don’t know how or why it found its way to shore.

News 8 spoke to the man who took pictures of the fish, and he says initially, he thought it was a jellyfish. But once he saw its mouth, he knew it was something different.
 



Scientists say it’s about the size of a soccer ball. It’s an anglerfish called Pacific Footballfish.

UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography says there are only about 30 anglerfish like this one in museums and fish collections around the world.

“Some of them have actually been caught in deep water nets off of California but also off Japan. Even in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. So, all over the Pacific Ocean,” said Ben Frable, Collection Manager of Marine Vertebrates, with Scripps Institute of Oceanography.

Frable says another anglerfish was spotted near Laguna Beach earlier this year, but it’s been 20 years since an anglerfish has been seen off the coast in the San Diego area.

 
Continue...

News Id SourceStampcountry
526More than 2,300 fish killed off at Hyde Creek Hatchery in Port Coquitlammsn2024-05-08CA
527Drought signs raise fears of another fish die-off in B.C. riversCBC News2024-05-08CA
528Minnows plentiful, license sales up: It’s time to fishechopress2024-05-08US
529As plastic talks wrap up in Canadamongabay2024-05-08ID
530В проводку по «рыжей» водеohotniki2024-04-30RU
531Online training launched for Chinese grass carp farmersthefishsite2024-05-08CN
532Ohio teens state fishing record officially certified after 101-pound blue catfish catchFox News2024-05-08US
533Former CFL star Brad Sinopoli tackling new waters as full-time fishing guidebrandonsun2024-05-07CA
534Благословенные апрельские рыбалкиohotniki2024-04-29RU
535Fisherman hooks prehistoric 200-pound alligatorFox News2024-05-04US
536Angler breaks 43-year-old record after reeling in large perch in Lake MichiganFOX 13 News2024-05-07US
537Poachers nailed after hiding fish in strange placesfoxnews2024-05-04US
538Tuna fishing season using a technique thousands of years old opens in Spain with some of those landed on first daysurinenglish2024-04-19SP
539Filipino fishermen blame sand mining for declining catchbworldonline2024-04-21PH
540Warming seas push Indias fishers into distant, and more dangerous, watersmongabay2024-04-23IN
541Douglas County man arrested after thousands of hatchery fish poisonedkobi52024-04-25US
542Navigating the rise in conflicts between humans and fishing cats in Bangladeshmongabay2024-04-25BD
543How local fishermen found a group of blackfin tuna while fishing in Gulf of MexicoBradenton Herald2024-04-21US
544Unlike Earnest Hemingway's epic tale "The Old Man and the Sea," the sharks did not come along and eat the giant. Though, after Asbury Park Press2024-04-22US
545117 operations to tackle fish bombing in Sabah since 2021nst2024-04-24MY
546Woman catches 30-pound koi fish in Texas lakeklfy2024-04-26US
547Fewer fish and more rules lead to illegal catches, Italian fishers saymongabay2024-04-26IT
548BC salmon farmer hopes algae can replace wild fish as feed ingredientmycomoxvalleynow2024-04-27CA
549The Moon brings a wild but precarious fish orgy to California's beachesBBC News2024-04-19US
550More California dog owners advised to be aware of salmon poisoning diseasektla2024-04-23US

217 218 219 21 of [220 - pages.]