A Swedish fisherman otherwise going for shrimp has caught a 2.15 meter Trachipterus arcticus, an extremely rare and not very good-looking deep-water fish.
According to the Göteborgs-Posten daily, only 17 findings have been reported in Swedish waters since 1897, including Ingvar Segelskär’s catch on 29 March just off Koster, a Skagerrak archipelago near the Norwegian border.
The species, in England called deal fish, usually sticks to depths below 200 meters.
Segelskär however complained about the rare catch distracting him from his tour of professional shrimp trawling, him not having any use for it and having to go off-course to leave it to a marine research laboratory.
There is no EU TAC for Trachipterus arcticus.
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