Astonishing Fish with eуe-Catching Stripes and Fascinating Patterns Surprises the World (Video)

Fishermen like Roman Fedortsov from Murmansk, Russia, often encounter unexpected and unusual species while out at sea. Thanks to the power of social media, their extraordinary catches have now become the stuff of nightmares for many.

Roman Fedortsov is a fisherman who primarily seeks fish like cod and haddock. However, every now and then, he catches non-target, rarely-seen species.

“This fish rarely gets into the trawl,” Fedortsov said via a Telegram app conversation with Newsweek about one of his particularly odd catches. “This is an accidental catch.”

Currently, Fedortsov is in the Norwegian Sea, where he sets out deep-sea trawlers. Occasionally, he catches non-target species, takes pictures of them, sometimes at odd angles, and posts the pictures to his Instagram and Twitter.

For example, one of his catches is the Lycodes reticulatus, a peculiar-looking fish from the North Atlantic Ocean. Fedortsov thinks they resemble dwarves from The Lord of the Rings.

Another photo shows a fish with a parasitic isopod in its mouth, a creature that eats the tongue of its host and then lives in its mouth.

Of course, Fedortsov can make weird-looking fish look even stranger with some clever perspectives. For example, this halibut looks like it just has one eye, but the other eye is on the far side of its body. When halibuts are born, they have one eye on each side of their body, but then one eye migrates to join the other.

Here we have a bearded sea devil, which is a member of a genus of anglerfish.

Sadly, the fish in the bycatch die an unfortunate death when brought up to the surface. As deep-sea creatures, they are used to a high-pressure environment, and when brought up too fast, their eyes sometimes pop out, and their organs rupture.

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