The fish was found ashore Friday morning.
A beachgoer strolling along Newport Beach, Calif., last week discovered a strange-looking fish that rarely washes ashore.
Ben Estes spotted the fish in the sand Friday morning at Crystal Cove State Park and alerted state park rangers and lifeguards about the weird-looking find.
In a Facebook post by Davey’s Locker Sportfishing & Whale Watching, a boat tour company that operates in the region, the fish was identified as an 18-inch deep-sea Pacific footballfish.
RARE FIND! Deep sea anglerfish washed up in Newport Beach on Friday morning! On Crystal Cove beach @CrystalCoveSP staff were alerted by beach visitor Ben Eslef and were able to retrieve this intact specimen.. pic.twitter.com/vERGy5Zujt
— Davey's Locker (@DaveysLocker400) May 9, 2021
The Pacific footballfish is one of 300 living species of anglerfish that’s normally found at depths of more than 3,000 feet below the surface.
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Beachgoer stumbles on rarely seen deep-sea creature known as footballfish https://t.co/TZK5Ac9BN4 pic.twitter.com/HLQvgVeqRE
— The Hill (@thehill) May 10, 2021
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