Bjarni Saemundsson (b. 1867) was the first Icelandic biologist who devoted his life to studying fishing; he did it with no funding, whenever his job as a high school teacher allowed it. In May 1917, a very peculiar fish that appeared in the nets of a fishing boat was taken to Saemudsson for study. It was a female anglerfish of the Ceratias holboelli species. In an article published in 1922, he expressed his amazement: