vERGy5Zujt- Davey's Locker May 9, 2021Įven though they are rarely encountered, anglerfish are among the most known deep sea creatures. RARE FIND! Deep sea anglerfish washed up in Newport Beach on Friday morning! On Crystal Cove beach staff were alerted by beach visitor Ben Eslef and were able to retrieve this intact specimen. The museum has only three others in its collection but, Ugoretz added, just one is from California and none are in such good condition. They are rarely recovered from the depths.Īfter it was frozen, officials in the California state parks service were connected with the LA county Natural History Museum “in hopes that it can be transferred to their collection”, Ugoretz said. Researchers are just glad to get another glance at the species, which typically dwells in the dark underwater abysses about 3,000ft from the surface. There aren’t yet a whole lot of answers to those questions, said John Ugoretz of the California department of fish and game in an email. “The thing about this was that it was almost perfectly intact. “It happens when you’re walking along – you find dead things here and there that just shouldn’t be on the beach,” she added. The organization was among the first to post photos of the fish on Facebook and Twitter after Estes alerted park rangers. “I don’t know if he understood the implications of what he found,” Jessica Roame, the education coordinator at Davey’s Locker Sportfishing & Whale Watching, told the Los Angeles Times of Estes’s discovery. The Pacific footballfish found on Crystal Cove Beach.

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