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This doesn't seem to have come up here before and the report is distinctly Fortean:
http://www.bahnhof.se/~wizard/GUSTeng03/artiklar_marmarasjon.html
The picture is a bit misleading as it is clearly at an angle.
It appears to be a "Bigeye Ragged-Tooth Shark" which is of interest in itself:
http://www.bahnhof.se/~wizard/GUSTeng03/artiklar_marmarasjon_2.html
Anyone got any further news in the last 6 months?
Emps
The crew on a Turkish trawler caught a fish of a lifetime
The monster of the Marmara Sea
At the end of May a Turkish trawler caught a fish that no one has been able to identify. It was 7 feet long and had of weight of 1,400 pouf[sic]. It was "human in appearance" and had legs rather than fins. Some researchers believe it to be a coelacanth, while others call it a "monster" similar to Storsie of Sweden or Selma of Norway.
The Turkish biologist Muharrem Karakaya at the Fen-Edebiyat faculty on the Osmangazi Üniversity in Eskisehir, who is in charge of the investigations of the so far unidentified fish, has sent GUST the picture above, scanned from a Turkish daily, after he read about our serious research on the net.
Dr. Karakaya says in an email to GUST: "A Turkish fishery biologist has publicly said that the fish is a coelacanth, a Latimeria, but I know these unique fishes and this is definitely not that species".
"There are more unknown animals in the Marmara Sea than biologists, limnologists and other scientists wants to admit and strange fishes has both been seen and caught since World War II", he continues. "This is the first time a trawler captain has decided to keep his find and for that the university are very grateful".
When this is written autopsy results from the "monster" of the Marmara Sea has still not been released, but Dr. Karakaya believes it will be and has promised to keep us posted.
Source: Email from zoologist Muharrem Karakaya on 2 July 2003.
Feature: Jan Sundberg, GUST © 2003.
http://www.bahnhof.se/~wizard/GUSTeng03/artiklar_marmarasjon.html
The picture is a bit misleading as it is clearly at an angle.
It appears to be a "Bigeye Ragged-Tooth Shark" which is of interest in itself:
Known from only 15 or so specimens, the Bigeye Ragged-Tooth Shark is perhaps the most poorly examined shark species in the world. Piecing together the life history and basic biology of this fish is thus a challenge in logic worthy of Sherlock Holmes.
http://www.bahnhof.se/~wizard/GUSTeng03/artiklar_marmarasjon_2.html
Anyone got any further news in the last 6 months?
Emps