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Hellacious Eel-Like Fish Are Dropping From The Sky In Alaska

  • June 05, 2015
  • Hawaii

It can be hard to go outside

Take final week, for example, when residents of Fairbanks reported saying several terrifying foot-long eel-like fish

This lamprey is about 15 inches long.

Posted by Alaska Department of Fish and Game – OfficialWednesday, Jun 3, 2015

Four have been spottedparking lot of a preservation store

Arctic lampreys are puzzling parasitic fish local to Alaska, nonetheless they are frequency seen or held since they live essentially in a sand of rivers and tributaries via a state. The Department of Fish and Game suspects these ones were dropped by gulls

Lamprey latched on to a fish tank potion in Fairbanks ADFG office.

Posted by Alaska Department of Fish and Game – OfficialWednesday, Jun 3, 2015

Young Arctic lampreys are blind, and feed by filtering micro-organisms by a water. But as adults, they turn parasites, attaching themselves to other class of fish or mammals by “using their sucking mouthparts

Then they use their teeth to cut by their host’s physique for the blood and corporeal fluid.

When lampreys feed off salmon, they can achieve a greasy flavor, and — trust it or not — Arctic lampreys are a seasonal sweetmeat in Alaska

We’ll take their word for it.

H/T New York Magazine

Article source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/05/alaska-fish-raining-from-sky_n_7518320.html?utm_hp_ref=hawaii&ir=Hawaii

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