Rare deep-sea fish washes up on NSW beach
(Australia)

A rare deep-sea fish, measuring over a metre long, has washed up on the NSW south coast.

The species, identified as a crested bandfish, has only 30 occurrence records listed on the Atlas of Living Australia and is rarely photographed.

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Giant squid from deep water caught in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand - a rare find

They were fishing around 1000m deep just north of Whakaari/ White Island at the edge of continental shelf and often get squid as a bycatch but never anything of this size.

Roger says in the space of 24 hours he caught a 10kg squid, then a 30kg, then the massive 80kg gravid female.

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This would be the 2nd giant squid incident, the first being the one off South Africa that someone posted about here earlier this past week