A newly discovered giant deep-sea fish species found in Suruga Bay off Shizuoka Prefecture (Provided by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
Researchers have discovered a deep-sea fish species that s so huge in waters off Shizuoka Prefecture that they named it after the highest rank for sumo wrestlers, the yokozuna.
A team of researchers from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and other institutions found four unknown fish at a depth of more than 2,000 meters in Suruga Bay off the prefecture.
The fish were extremely huge with one measuring 1.4 meters long and weighing 25 kilograms, making them the biggest among more than 90 species of slickheads, also known as “sekitori iwashi” (sekitori sardines). Sekitori refers to sumo wrestlers in the sport s top two divisions.
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Meanwhile, Barry’s been on holiday up Nelson way, and trying not to think too hard about his brother’s groin. “Yes, I was quite worried’’ he says. “Yesterday I was out diving and found it quite hard to concentrate . . .’’ Turns out it’s not all that easy to push to the back of your mind a message that the poison from your brother’s alarmingly swollen leg has been spreading in unwelcome directions. Mercifully, a more recent update was more reassuring, the poison had stopped progressing further.
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