Fishing news - Japanese spider crab

A giant Japanese spider crab with limbs more than 5ft (1.5m) long has gone on show in Britian. Nicknamed Crabzilla he is thought to be the biggest crab ever to be seen in Britain and you certainly wouldn’t want to get pinched by his massive claws. But experts at the Sea Life Centre in Birmingham say he is still growing and his legs could grow to 15ft (4.5m)

Japanese spider crab - Crabzilla

Fishing news:  Crabzilla was caught by fishermen in the Pacific Ocean before being taken to the Birmingham aquarium where he will be on show in their ray tank till the end of March. The crabs are commonly found in the Pacific in 1,000 ft (300m) deep waters but have been known to live deeper. Curator Graham Burrows said: “It is rumoured these crabs can grow as big as four metres, big enough to straddle a car. “He will absolutely dwarf the other crabs in there, but he’s not aggressive and they should have nothing to worry about.”

Fishing

Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping.
The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms. The term is not normally applied to catching aquatic mammals, such as whales, where the term whaling is more appropriate, or to farmed fish.

Colossal squid – 990 pounds

Very interesting fishing news: Fishermen in New Zealand may have captured the largest Colossal squid ever recorded. It may be the first time a Colossal squid has been seen alive.  The beast, weighing 450 kilograms (990 pounds), was eating a Patagonian toothfish (Chilean sea bass) hooked by fishermen when it was captured in the deep, frigid waters in the Ross Sea near Antarctica. The squid was reported to be 10 meters (33 feet) in length and took more than two hours to land.

• Colossal squid are only known from a few specimens, estimates put its maximum size at 12 to 14 metres. It is the largest known squid species and the world’s largest invertebrate. It is believed to have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom.
• Analysis of sperm whale stomachs suggests the colossal squid makes up three quarters of the diet of large sperm whales and it is likely there are large numbers of them in Antarctic waters.
• Only a handful of colossal squid have been sighted. One was caught in the net of a Russian trawler in the Ross Sea at depth of 760m in 1981, another found near the surface in 2003 and another near South Georgia Island was brought up from a depth of 1625 metres on a toothfish longline in 2005.
• It is believed that colossal squid hunt large fish, such as toothfish, and other squid.
  

Jellyfish Lake

Jellyfish Lake (Ongeim’l Tketau is the Palauan name) is a marine lake located on Eil Malk island in Palau. Eil Malk is part of the Rock Islands, a group of small, rocky, mostly uninhabited islands in Palau’s Southern Lagoon, between Koror and Peleliu. There are about 70 other marine lakes located throughout the Rock Islands. It is notable for the millions of golden jellyfish which migrate across its surface daily.
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