A Russian, fisherman from Murmansk, shared pictures of his grotesque and rare fishy finds online.
Roman Fedortsov, 39, loves fishing and he spends most of his time on fishing trawlers, coming into contact with a wide variety of sea life.
He has been sharing pictures of his bizarre catches on social media for many years– people love to know more about the interesting sea creatures.
The vessels Fedortsov works on are tasked with catching commercial fish such as cod, haddock, and mackerel. But the bizarre marine creatures pictured here make an appearance too.
Bright orange blobs, slug-like lumps, fish with teeth and bigger eyes, looking more like aliens than fish to the untrained eye, but Roman is apparently interested and impressed by what he encounters.
Fedortsov studied at Marine University in Murmansk and he is an expert on processing and preparing fish.
These rare fishes mainly found in the Norwegian and Barents seas while some of them came ashore from the Atlantic Ocean.
He manages his social media accounts and shares these pictures with people who love to see rare creatures.
Roman previously told the Press Association: ‘All kinds of fish are beautiful in their own way.
‘I can not say that they are ‘scary’ or ‘ugly’.’
‘People are very interested in unusual sea creatures,’ he added.
‘I think the reason for such popularity was the fact that an ordinary sailor can face life with unusual ‘fantastic creatures’.’
‘Readers have the impression that with each trawl we bring aboard unusual fish specimens,’ the fisherman added.
‘In fact, this is far from the case. It is a rarity.
‘On the other hand, even a famous fish can be photographed so that it will seem to be a ‘monster’.’
‘Most of the raised fish do not survive due to the difference in pressure,’ he added.
‘Commercial fish is processed, non-food by-catch is used for the production of fish meal.’