WHAT Fish is THAT?

[darryl_l]

Friend sent some pics so all you fishing buffs give us some names please.

Darryl

[darryl_l]

Fish number 2

[darryl_l]

Fish 3

[land_based]

the things you see when you havent got a gun...........

[Billo]

prickly shark , blob fish , chimera

[robersl]

number 3 looks like a cross between a squid and a terradactil and shh number 2 is me how did he get that shot

[Billo]

heres one for you ....a squid in the christmas spirit ...or on something

[Billo]

could it be a prehestoric grinner ???

[gunna]

Those photos have been round for ages - and on this site a couple times. They was a myth going for a while that they all washed up during the Aceh tsunami.

[DaMaGe]

More info here :-

http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.u...m.php?news=546

These show that the fish pictured were actually collected during a joint New Zealand and Australia Norfolk Ridge - Lord Howe Rise Biodiversity Voyage (NORFANZ) undertaken between May and June 2003, and weren't collected in Phuket as stated in the email.

[Duyz72]

The deeper you go, the stranger they seem to appear. I am sure in 100 years time they'll still be finding stragne and wonderful things down below.

[Somethn_Fishy]

hey all,

these pics have been making the round for ages - stories about the tsunami in SE Asia etc. In actuality they were specimens dredged from the deep channel b/w NZ and Australia a few years back during a co-operative international scientific study of deep sea life forms. they found about forty or fifty new species and these are some of them - they then named them... so unless people are really in tune with the science mags and field then they probably will not know wtf they are.....

Interesting what things look like when they don't need to look like anything isn't it ( too dark down there)...


Cheers.