nuisance animal problems
Female Anglerfish Catches Supper
Photograph courtesy Peter Rask Møller, Natural History Museum of Denmark
Scaly oddities trawled up from seas around Greenland since 1992 include the Atlantic football fish, a type of anglerfish that lures prey by waggling its fleshy "bait."
The stubby, deep-sea species belongs to an anglerfish group in which the males attach themselves to the much larger females like parasites. The tiny male—little more than a sperm donor—is nourished by the female until her eggs are fertilized.
Peter Møller, of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, said that recent catches of unusual deepwater fishes is linked to increased fishing activity by vessels seeking halibut.
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