A Florida fisherman has caught an enormous 14-foot deep-sea creature so old it has barnacles on it.
The 800-pound rarely-seen beast was caught in the waters off Miami Beach and the fish was so rare it was like ‘a dinosaur’.
Captain Mark Quartiano, a charter boat operator who also goes by ‘Mark the Shark’, posted a picture of the Dactylobatus clarkii, a deep sea species also referred to as ‘hookskate’ or ‘fingerskate’, in an Instagram photo he posted over the weekend.
The monster inhabits muddy sea depths of up to 1,000 feet – this one was caught in waters of about 500 feet deep, Quartiano said.
‘I’ve caught one like it before, but never that size, not in the last 30 years I’ve been doing this,’ Quartiano told ABC News. ‘It’s a very rare fish. It’s like a big gigantic whipping stingray. It’s a dinosaur.’
‘It was very old. It had barnacles all over it,’ said Quartiano, who caught the skate while shooting a series of TV shows for a Japanese network.
He released the fish back into the ocean shortly after tagging it.
The 800-pound rarely-seen beast was caught in the waters off Miami Beach and the fish was so rare it was like ‘a dinosaur’.
Captain Mark Quartiano, a charter boat operator who also goes by ‘Mark the Shark’, posted a picture of the Dactylobatus clarkii, a deep sea species also referred to as ‘hookskate’ or ‘fingerskate’, in an Instagram photo he posted over the weekend.
The monster inhabits muddy sea depths of up to 1,000 feet – this one was caught in waters of about 500 feet deep, Quartiano said.
‘I’ve caught one like it before, but never that size, not in the last 30 years I’ve been doing this,’ Quartiano told ABC News. ‘It’s a very rare fish. It’s like a big gigantic whipping stingray. It’s a dinosaur.’
‘It was very old. It had barnacles all over it,’ said Quartiano, who caught the skate while shooting a series of TV shows for a Japanese network.
He released the fish back into the ocean shortly after tagging it.
Source : ABC , DailyMail
Comments
Post a Comment