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06-09-2010, 05:45 PM
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too bad, it should of been left in the wild
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06-20-2010, 08:58 PM
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Tang Daddy, adult oarfish are blue water fish that hunt the open ocean. As far as I know, nothing is known about their juvenile life history, though I would speculate that they remain planktonic for their entire lives.
I wonder what the circumstances were for its capture. If found via the normal channels near shore, I suspect that this fish was so far from where it should be that it probably had little to no chance in the wild anyways.
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06-20-2010, 09:11 PM
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A coworker of mine and I just checked a reference book and it turns out that this fish is NOT an oarfish (Regalecus russelii). The fish shown (Trachipterus trachypterus) is a ribbonfish, another very rare and unknown deepwater fish.
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