The Freaky Fish Series!

So Miss Erin Burks drew my attention to a website that was very helpful to the DSAA. It highlighted a lot of freaky fish to be wary of. Not all of them may be harmful though, so I am researching them individually so we can concluded which ones we should avioid for our safety, and which ones are just plain crazy (and just...plain unharmful).

The Freaky Fish Series will be split up as there are far too many for one post. There wll be 8 groups in total so keep checking cause this is really incredible stuff actually.

Group 1

Blob Freaks

Angler

The fish are named for their characteristic method of predation. Anglerfish typically have three long filaments sprouting from the middle of the head; these are the detached and modified three first spines of the anterior dorsal fin. In most anglerfish species, the longest filament is the first. This first spine protrudes above the fish's eyes, and terminates in an irregular growth of flesh at the tip of the spine. The spine is movable in all directions, and can be wiggled so as to resemble a prey animal, thus to act as bait to lure other predators close enough for the anglerfish to devour them whole.

They occur worldwide.

SAFETY LEVEL: Listed by the ICES as "outside safe biological limits".

Blob Fish

This fish is called blob Sculpin due to its blob like, flabby shape. This fish has no traditional spines like many other fish do and look and feel different to those fish living in the shallower seas. It has very small eyes in comparison to many deep sea fish.

SAFETY LEVEL: There aren't any official reports on it, but it doesn't seem very harmful at all. Just icky.

That seems to be it for the Blob Freaks category! Kinda grosso...

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