Angler bitten by fish with human teeth
13th January 2011
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A shocked angler in the US was bitten by a fish with human-looking teeth.
Fishing on Lake Wylie, South Carolina, Frank Yarborough was attacked by the 5lb and nearly 1ft 8ins long fish he had just caught. Assuming it was a catfish, he scooped his hand in the water to pull it out, only to find his fingers clamped between what appeared to be a set of dentures. Talking to WBTV Stroud said, “This fish is more than likely a common species of Pacu, Colossama macropomum, originating from the Amazon River basin of South America and is quite common in the aquarium trade." The fish is currently in a freezer in Stroud’s home and he is not going to eat it. Pacus, a distant relative of the piranha, is a warm water fish, and not native to Lake Wylie. Biologists believe it was probably raised in an exotic fish tank and released when it got too large for the tank.
Fishing on Lake Wylie, South Carolina, Frank Yarborough was attacked by the 5lb and nearly 1ft 8ins long fish he had just caught. Assuming it was a catfish, he scooped his hand in the water to pull it out, only to find his fingers clamped between what appeared to be a set of dentures. Talking to WBTV Stroud said, “This fish is more than likely a common species of Pacu, Colossama macropomum, originating from the Amazon River basin of South America and is quite common in the aquarium trade." The fish is currently in a freezer in Stroud’s home and he is not going to eat it. Pacus, a distant relative of the piranha, is a warm water fish, and not native to Lake Wylie. Biologists believe it was probably raised in an exotic fish tank and released when it got too large for the tank.
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