SELAMAT TAHUN BARU 2015

KAPTEN LARUI

MENUNGKOL DI LAUT JERUDONG BERSAMA WAK JAMAN & BOND

MARHABAN YA RAMADHAN AL KARIM

BIZZARE, SEE-THROUGH SEA CREATURE BAFFLES ANGLERS

A fisherman in waters north of New Zealand came across an

odd-looking, translucent sea creature swimming on the surface.

Curious, he caught the creature presumably scooping it up

with a net to get a closerlook.

It was described as a see-through, shrimp-like creature by the U.K. MailOnline.

“It felt scaly and was quite firm, almost jelly like, and you couldn’t see

anything inside aside from this orange little blob inside it,” fisherman

Stewart Fraser told MailOnline.

 



Fraser, who had been fishing with sons Conaugh and Finn

43 miles north of the Karikari Peninsula, took photos and

shared them with his fishing buddies, none of whom could

 identify the sea creature.“We have no idea what it could have been,

but it was quite something, and I’d never seen anything like it before,

” he said.

 

 

Fortunately, the folks at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, U.K.,

 had an idea, identifying it as a Salpa maggiore (Salpa maxima).

Paul Cox, director of conservation and communication at the aquarium,

told MailOnline that a salp is barrel-shaped, moves by pumping water

through its gelatinous body, and that the life-cycle includes alternate

generations of existing as solitary individuals or as a group forming long

chains.

“In common with other defenseless animals that occupy open

water jellies and hydroids, for example—the translucence presumably

 provides some protection from predation,” Cox told MailOnline.

 “Being see-through is a pretty good camouflage in water.”

The report doesn’t say, but it is presumed Fraser threw the

bizarre sea creature back into the ocean.