Here are a few of the craziest catches fisherman
have gotten from the sea! 9 - Roman Fedortsov’s Catches
Fedortsov is a Russian deep sea fisherman who posts his more peculiar catches on Instagram. For example, there’s the Lycodes Reticulatus
and it looks as weird as it sounds. While it may look like a half dwarf, half
fish that looks like it belongs in a cartoon, it’s definitely a real fish. If you quickly browse through Fedorov’s
instagram feed, you’ll find some of the most interesting looking deep sea animals. Another example is the Bearded Sea Devil,
which looks like something that should be in the movie Aliens. Or the ghost shark, which has eyes that glow
when it’s exposed to light! All the strange creatures he catches seem
like they shouldn’t exist. Except, they do exist, just in a completely
foreign world to us. What’s the best catch this russian fisherman
has posted?! Let us know what you think in the comments
section! 8 - Salpa Maggiore
While fishing in the South Pacific near New Zealand, Stewart Fisher and his two sons caught
a very interesting looking fish. As the fish was almost completely transparent,
at first glance, it may have probably looked a lot just like a glass bottle. But once Fisher saw the fish swimming around,
he had to investigate. As it turns out, this fish is called a Salpa
Maggiore. And despite looking a lot like a jellyfish,
they actually have a lot more in common with marine vertebrae. These Salps propel themselves through the
water by pumping water through their bodies and out of openings at each end of their body. Despite being mainly transparent, these amazing
looking creatures have gills and a heart. One thing they do have in common with jellyfish
is how they use their transparency for protection. As a little fish swimming around the Antarctic
Ocean, they really have no way to protect themselves from bigger predators. But being see through is pretty much like
being camouflaged in the ocean, and that makes them less noticeable to predators. 7 - Two Bodied Fish
A two bodied fish? Wouldn’t that just, you know, be two fish? Except, these guys appeared to be fused together
at the head. The picture you’re looking at is truly a
mystery. While it’s made the rounds across the internet
for years now, conjoined twins in the wild is a thing that just happens sometimes. Imagine how surprising it must be to catch
fish who’re conjoined at the face! As another example, back in 2008, some thai
fisherman caught two Nile Tilapias that were conjoined at the stomach. Call it a two bodied a fish, or maybe a two
headed fish. Either way, it’s just rare. Not too sure how we’d feel if we saw these
fish in person to be honest! 6 - An Enigmatic Jellyfish
Back in 2012, a video surfaced of what appeared to be a mysterious deep sea blob floating
around in the depths of the ocean. Was it a fishing net? A Whale Placenta? An underwater alien invasion? It also wasn't clear who took the video. It was uploaded to the internet back in 2012
by a person who apparently didn’t want credit for the video. Some experts came along and were like, “yeah
that’s a jellyfish.” With that mystery solved, the quest to obtain
more information about this really crazy looking jellyfish began. Known as Deepstaria Enigmatica, this thing
has appendages and organs, both of which are pretty unique features for a jellyfish. While marine biologists have seen this before,
first back in 1967, it’s still interesting to see video footage of one of these guys
fully intact. Dr. Stephen Haddock, a noted Jellyfish expert,
explained that “bag like” jellyfish such as this are pretty common, but since they’re
so large they’re rarely seen intact. Definitely a rare catch indeed, even if it
was just caught on camera. We’ll count it anyway! 5 - Frilled Shark
In 2017, the frilled shark was caught alive not one, not two, but three times in different
parts of the world. These catches were important and interesting
for a few reasons. It’s one of nature's most primitive species,
as there’s evidence of this shark dating back some 165 million years ago. Now by no means does this make it anywhere
close to the oldest living species, but it’s still pretty old, and it’s often referred
to as a living fossil. Some scientists believe that this shark has
more in common with their modern peers than it does with sharks way back in the day, it
does at least belong to an ancient lineage of sharks. The first time a human was known to have seen
a frilled shark was back in 1879. A German guy named Ludwig Doderlein made expeditions
to Japan between 1879 and 1881, and much like most of us, he and his peers were amazed by
what they found. This is a shark that has a body like a snake,
and a really wide jaw. In fact, they’ve been known to swallow other
creatures whole. Add their super sharp teeth into the mix and
you have one ridiculous looking animal! 4 - Chimera Lobster Lobsters are kinda interesting creatures. For one thing, as all the shellfish connoisseurs
out there can agree with, they’re quite tasty. Granted, they’re known to let out a scream
when they’re getting boiled. Okay, just kidding, contrary to popular belief,
they don’t scream, because lobsters have no vocal cords, or organs of any kind for
audio communication! The sound you hear sometimes is just expanding
air bubbles trapped in their shells escaping. Anyways, enough about the tastiness and gases
escaping from cooked lobsters. Let’s talk about the time someone caught
a mutated lobster. In 2007, a fisherman in Newport, Rhode Island
reeled in a two toned lobster that appeared to be half cooked! This is a very rare occurrence in nature. This is essentially the Harvey Dent Two Face
of Lobsters! Usually when you see lobsters in cartoons,
they’re bright red. However, in nature, they typically have a
brownish green color of course. They’re only red after they’ve been cooked. However, in very rare instances, they’ll
appear half brownish-green and half red. This is the result of a crazy genetic mutation. It’s so rare, the odds of catching such
a are roughly 1 in 50 million! Maybe this fisherman should have bought a
lottery ticket that day? 3 - Giant Stingray Your average, run of the mill stingray is
scary enough. Add the astonishing size of a somewhat newly
discovered species from Thailand, and well, you have something that sounds like an old
sailor’s folk lore. This freshwater stingray can reportedly reach
lengths of 16 feet while weighing north of 1,300 pounds! For those of you keeping score at home, that
would make it one of the largest freshwater fish on the planet. And let’s not forget a key aspect of their
existence…..which is the word STING in stingray! Yeah, this thing wields a barb that’s been
rumored to cut right into boats. So just imagine what it could do to whatever
it wants….including a human trying to catch it. These things are rare and also difficult to
catch. Because of their incredible size and natural
aversion to being yanked out of the water. Yeah we know it’s big, but it’s a skilled
hunter too. They hunt using a strategy that involves using
something called electroreception to track down their prey. Once they find it, they hover over their prospective
meal and smother it before chowing down. All the same, a group of more than a dozen
fishermen managed to reel in one of these guys back in 2010 on the Mekong River. It took an extraordinary effort, with the
guys working in shifts over several hours, but they eventually got it. It’s pretty amazing that they were able
to reel it in if you’re asking us! 2 - Massive Sunfish
In September of 2017, a group of Sakhalin fisherman bagged a massive sunfish that weighed
more than 2,000 pounds! This huge specimen was accidentally caught
in their net near the Russian Island of Iturup. After a three day period, the fisherman were
able to finally bring the fish ashore, but by that point it was already a goner. While the size of catching a fish this size
is pretty rare, we do know quite a bit about this fish. Weighing anywhere from 545 to 2,500 pounds,
the Ocean Sunfish is the heaviest bony fish on the planet. Their preferred meal is any kind of sea jelly,
and they tend to eat a lot of them at once. Despite their impressive size, they’re often
picked off by hungry sea lions, killer whales and sharks. And as is the case here, sometimes fisherman
accidentally catch them in their fishing nets. And sometimes they do it on purpose, as they’re
a delicacy in Japan and Taiwan. 1 - Coelacanth For a while there, the general assumption
was that Coelacanth were extinct. All we had left of these creatures were fossil
remains. The remains of a fish that hadn’t swam earth’s
oceans for some 65 million years. And yeah fossils are cool and all, but it’s
still just not the same as having the real thing. Then 1938 happened. Although 1938 was well before some of us were
born, it’s something like less than a second ago if you put the earth’s age in terms
of a 24 hour day. And kudos to you if you’re actually still
alive from 1938 and watching this video because you’re doing something right! Marjorie Courtenay Latimer essentially rediscovered
the Coelacanth in the Western Indian Ocean. Since then, this unique fish has also been
found in Indonesia. Its discovery 66 million years after it was
believed to have gone extinct makes the coelacanth the best-known example of a Lazarus taxon,
which is an evolutionary line that seems to have disappeared from the fossil record only
to reappear much later. What makes this fish interesting is that it
has several features no other fish has. For instance, they have a rostral organ in
their nose as part of their electrosensory system. They also have this special joint, or hinge,
in their skull that allows their head to swing upwards, effectively enlarging the size of
their mouth. Here’s what’s next!
