PMC
12th June 2014, 12:56 PM
Holy Shag-Mollie Lounge Lizards,
I just found this news article in the US, I hope we do not get these Farkers over here. lol
Is the testicle-eating fish spreading across the country? Exotic piranha relative caught in family lake on the West Coast
By James Nye
Published: 06:14 AEST, 2 June 2014
The infamous Pacu, known as the 'testicle eating fish' or 'ball cutter' seems to have spread from coast to coast.
After the news last week that a New Jersey pensioner reeled in one of the exotic fish, notorious for reportedly killing men by ripping off their genitals, comes the news that one was caught in August in a quiet family lake in Washington state.
Snaring the five pound, 17-inch pacu, a relative of the piranha native to the Amazon and Pacific Islands, fisherman John Denton was stunned to hook the scary looking fish with its distinctive human-shaped teeth.
Told by one of his neighbors who used to work in an aquarium that he believed the fish to be a pacu, Denton put the fish into water and waited to take it to the local pet shop - where the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife could come an inspect it.
Although part of the same family, the pacu has thicker, sturdier teeth that resemble human ones, unlike the piranha, which is renowned for its deadly serrated incisors.
Pacu's are legal to own in the United States and can grow up to 4 feet long, which is why the owner may have worried and released it into Lake Ki.
In 2011, one intrepid British angler traveled to Papua New Guinea to catch pacu, known locally as 'The Ball Cutter'. Jeremy Wade, 53, hunted for the legendary pacu after hearing reports of the fish killing local fishermen by castration.
The 'Ball Cutter' it is said to use its man-like molars, which tear off the testicles of unwitting hunters, leaving them to bleed to death.
'I had heard of a couple of fishermen in Papua New Guinea who had been castrated by something in the water,' said Wade on his British television program 'River Monsters'. 'The bleeding was so severe that they died. The locals told me that this thing was like a human in the water, biting at the testicles of fishermen. They didn’t know what it was.'
However, Jeff Holmes, of Fish & Wildlife, said that the likelihood of a population starting in the temperate north west is unlikely.
Regards,
PMC
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I just found this news article in the US, I hope we do not get these Farkers over here. lol
Is the testicle-eating fish spreading across the country? Exotic piranha relative caught in family lake on the West Coast
By James Nye
Published: 06:14 AEST, 2 June 2014
The infamous Pacu, known as the 'testicle eating fish' or 'ball cutter' seems to have spread from coast to coast.
After the news last week that a New Jersey pensioner reeled in one of the exotic fish, notorious for reportedly killing men by ripping off their genitals, comes the news that one was caught in August in a quiet family lake in Washington state.
Snaring the five pound, 17-inch pacu, a relative of the piranha native to the Amazon and Pacific Islands, fisherman John Denton was stunned to hook the scary looking fish with its distinctive human-shaped teeth.
Told by one of his neighbors who used to work in an aquarium that he believed the fish to be a pacu, Denton put the fish into water and waited to take it to the local pet shop - where the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife could come an inspect it.
Although part of the same family, the pacu has thicker, sturdier teeth that resemble human ones, unlike the piranha, which is renowned for its deadly serrated incisors.
Pacu's are legal to own in the United States and can grow up to 4 feet long, which is why the owner may have worried and released it into Lake Ki.
In 2011, one intrepid British angler traveled to Papua New Guinea to catch pacu, known locally as 'The Ball Cutter'. Jeremy Wade, 53, hunted for the legendary pacu after hearing reports of the fish killing local fishermen by castration.
The 'Ball Cutter' it is said to use its man-like molars, which tear off the testicles of unwitting hunters, leaving them to bleed to death.
'I had heard of a couple of fishermen in Papua New Guinea who had been castrated by something in the water,' said Wade on his British television program 'River Monsters'. 'The bleeding was so severe that they died. The locals told me that this thing was like a human in the water, biting at the testicles of fishermen. They didn’t know what it was.'
However, Jeff Holmes, of Fish & Wildlife, said that the likelihood of a population starting in the temperate north west is unlikely.
Regards,
PMC
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