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Mark Fisher, the Coastal Fisheries Science Director for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, told the San Antonio Express-News the fish is a snapper eel. The creature is “somewhat common ...
The East Texas city of Texarkana experienced a rare weather event to close out the year: It rained fish.
There was a hook caught on the fish, and strong fishing line wrapped tightly around the bill — so tight it was tearing through the flesh. ... Texas photos show. Buck caught in stranglehold of ...
Kirkland, who says he has “over 100 IGFA WORLD RECORDS for all species,” called the monster catch “the holy grail of the fishing world,” in a Sept. 7 Facebook post, sharing photos of the fish.
This is possibly the depth record for a fish caught on the seafloor. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] Abyssobrotula galatheae has generally been recognized as the record-holder based on one caught at the seafloor at 8,370 m (27,460 ft), but it might have been caught with a non-closing net (a net that is open on the way up and down into the deep) and therefore was ...
The fish's name comes from the Portuguese and Spanish bonito (there's no evidence of the origin of the name), identical to the adjective meaning 'pretty'. However, the noun referring to the fish seems to come from the low and medieval Latin form boniton, a word with a strange structure and an obscure origin, related to the word byza, a possible borrowing from the Greek βῦζα, 'owl'.
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Strange Deaths: More Than 375 Freakish Fatalities. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7607-1947-3 – via Google Books. Sieveking, Paul (1998). The Fortean Times Book of More Strange Deaths. John Brown. ISBN 978-1-902212-02-9. Sieveking, Paul (2011). The Fortean Times Book of Strange Deaths. Russell Blackman.