anyone identify this

[sless]

i have been asked by a mate of mine in ireland if i can tell him what specie this is
anyone got any info
cheers

 

[flatheed]

looks like a deep sea species sless judging by the eyes alone? did he catch it or find it washed up?

 

[northeast1]

At a guess it looks like a bream btu god knows seems very slim?????

 

[mark]

juvenile greenland or black halibut

maybe!

 

[Norman]

looks like a type of adhesive bottle to me sless ............. (next to an unusual fish)

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Hmmm I thought it was a prehistoric wheel with some stuff on top of it !!

 

[fishaman]

its a blackfish (Centrolophus niger)

 

[RONVIK]

I dont think its a blackfish. Yahoo! Billeddetalje for kkatcharterboat.com/images/NewPics/Blackfish05.jpg
it does look deep sea though, i will have to do a search now

 

[fishaman]

google its latin name mate,deffo a blackfish

 

[sless]

thats the boyo
thanks very much

 

[fishaman]

no problem mate

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

I googled Blackfish and came up with this...

...and before you accuse me of being a racialmalist those fish are indeed black :yltype:

 

[RONVIK]

google its latin name mate,deffo a blackfish

Well that solved the mystery the blackfish i found look like wrasse lol.
where in the world do they come from?

 

[Charlton]

if you just google black fish, you get a whole load of different species coming up. Ron, I think the ones you psoted where black sea bass