‘Very rare’ King-of-the-Salmon fish found on Vancouver Island beach

Ben Clinton Baker walks his dog along a Oak Bay shorelines sincerely regularly.

On Thursday, he was on Rattenbury Beach when he found something that’s anything though regular: a thin, shimmering fish lonesome in purple beam and fringed with a red dorsal fin.

“It only stood out to me as something I’d never seen before and I’ve been walking these beaches many of my life,” Baker said Friday.

It incited out to be a vast King-of-the-Salmon fish, measuring about dual metres in length.

The stream record for such a ribbonfish is 1.8 metres in length — that means Baker’s find could be one of a biggest ever discovered. 

Biologist Jackie Hildering called it an “exciting” find. 

“It’s remarkable-looking, it’s impossibly skinny … it’s an surprising fish,” she said. “It’s really singular to get such a good demeanour during a vast one that has cleared ashore.”

The prolonged King-of-the-Salmon is an surprising find in Vancouver Island waters. Biologist contend it’s really singular to have one — let alone such a vast one — rinse ashore. (Ben Baker)

Baker pronounced a biologist told him to take a fish home and put it on ice, in box experts want to safety a animal for research.

Now a fish is chilling in Baker’s freezer, watchful for someone to come and collect it up.

“I’m happy to give it to any researcher who wants to take a look,” he told CBC Radio West. “If not, we theory it’ll go behind in a sea where it came from.

“It’s a genuine provide and payoff to have found it. Things like this are why we adore vital in a Oak Bay area.”

With files from Jean Paetkau

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