What species is this?

[Abz]

Some sort of eel doesn't look like a common one

 

[steesh]

Hag fish

 

[Ian Alexander]

Like Steesh says it's a Hagfish......horrible aren't they.

 

[Abz]

They are slimey as hell just got it there am out on tynemouth pier, I've never seen one before

 

[jamiebrennan]

put it in a bucket of water and the water will be like jelly after an hour, horrible blighters.

 

[The Plum]

uuuurrrrgggghhhh its a lamp ray,i call them ar sole bandits

 

[John findley]

Well done on the new species.av seen a couple ov them caught lately in same location.there naughty slimey things like.

 

[david.northeast]

If you haven't already chuck the rig away hooks and everything. You won't catch on it again. Dirty things they are

 

[Winton]

A would qell eat that like

 

[dabcatcher]

ive had loads of them on shields pier. flippin horrible slimy things. trash your rigs and the slimes like silicone.

 

[davidhayley1945]

hagfish can make a three foot trace in to two inchs coverd in slime,best cut of trace and tie a new one,plagured with them last year on Tynemouth pier. davy.

 

[Mogthemackem]

Not a lamprey. They're different fish. Its defo a hag fish. A lamprey has a different mouth and colour

 

[Winton]

The slimes a defence from predators just looked them up

 

[david.northeast]

I've been lucky enough to avoid them and only ever witnessed someone else catching them. Horrible little things they are

 

[dabcatcher]

they also knot your line into half hitches.

i watched a program about them on discovery, it showed them knotting themselves up to rip chunks off there food.

told a mate when fishing on shields and sure enough his line had half hitches in it.

 

[LiamNE]

Thanks for sharing - never seen one before

 

[Abz]

Ii a cut the trace straight Off and chucked it bk with me cloth hopefully my first and last catch of a hag Fish haha

 

[safc]

I caught 3 in one night on roker last year.

Horrible little f**kers

 

[smallfry]

I've never seen one & after looking on Wikipedia & reading about them, I don't bliddy want to!
Yuck!

 

[codcatcher3000]

Scientists film hagfish anti-shark slime weapon - YouTube quite interesting