Still Waters Posted May 28, 2012 #1 Share Posted May 28, 2012 When angler Mark Sawyer went fishing in Cambridgeshire, all he wanted was to catch a carp.Instead he ended up with a goldfish, a roach, and a bream - but, bizarrely, all in one fish. The Frankenfish even manages to put cartoon character Blinky the Fish from The Simpsons to shame when it comes to levels of wierdness. But unlike Springfield's most famous fish, which is the product of Mr Burn's toxic dumping, there is nothing in the water to suggest this mutant is a result of a nuclear mutation. http://www.dailymail...-fin-bream.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bella-Angelique Posted May 28, 2012 #2 Share Posted May 28, 2012 It is a lovely fish though isn't it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted May 29, 2012 #3 Share Posted May 29, 2012 It is a very nice looking fish. I can see the resemblance to the roach, but not the bream. Seems to me it probably falls into the range of normal for a goldfish. Those things are inbreed to the nth degree and come out with all kinds of weird fins and mouths. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangepeaceful79 Posted May 29, 2012 #4 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Oh my GOD.......its a.....a....a fish. Seriously? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted May 29, 2012 #5 Share Posted May 29, 2012 I don't even see how this is a Frankenfish. A frankenfish usually is mutated or somehow "Wrong" to the eye. This fish is actually quite pleasing to look at. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zalanox Posted May 29, 2012 #6 Share Posted May 29, 2012 I don't even see how this is a Frankenfish. A frankenfish usually is mutated or somehow "Wrong" to the eye. This fish is actually quite pleasing to look at. A frankenfish would be a fish that appears to have various body parts taken from different individuals, which is supposedly what we have here. Beauty is not really a factor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emin Posted May 29, 2012 #7 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Wow that is very interesting! Definitively a one of a kind fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafterman Posted May 29, 2012 #8 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Seems to me that the biologist interviewed figured it out pretty easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orcseeker Posted May 29, 2012 #9 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Interesting how the Satanic brand name is so conveniently placed in the picture and how the fish in the photo itself just looks shopped in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGirl Posted May 29, 2012 #10 Share Posted May 29, 2012 how incredibly underwhelming 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendy Demon Posted May 29, 2012 #11 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Interesting how the Satanic brand name is so conveniently placed in the picture and how the fish in the photo itself just looks shopped in Darn! You beat me to it. I noticed the "Satanic" word on what looks to be a bike plus the way the hand is positioned looks odd as if the fish was altered somehow. At any rate, IF this fish is real then it simply looks like an escaped koi or something. Nothing mutated about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sickpuppy Posted May 29, 2012 #12 Share Posted May 29, 2012 wtf? ....nothing here? i'm more concerned about the intelligence of the angler? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+HerNibs Posted May 29, 2012 #13 Share Posted May 29, 2012 He said: 'I have shown the picture to a number of marine boffins who say it is definitely the result of mixed parentage. *LOL* I LOVE this phrase. Nibs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky7 Posted May 30, 2012 #14 Share Posted May 30, 2012 The tail looks like it's made of fabric. It does not look like good eating..... ick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimm24 Posted May 30, 2012 #15 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Its a good lookin fish to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esperwolf Posted June 2, 2012 #16 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Hopefully that fish will breed and produce more beautiful offspring like it cause I must say that is one handsome fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueguardian Posted June 3, 2012 #17 Share Posted June 3, 2012 It's a Brofish, it's awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artaxerxes Posted June 18, 2012 #18 Share Posted June 18, 2012 It's simply a fancy goldfish that someone turned loose. Nothing special about it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooko22 Posted June 18, 2012 #19 Share Posted June 18, 2012 Have to agree. Nothing special about that fish, and the term Frankenfish certainly does not apply, it's even a quite beautiful fish. Nothing wrong with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drivernjax Posted July 6, 2012 #20 Share Posted July 6, 2012 The angler's mistake was returning it to the pond. If you don't know what kind of fish it is you just caught, you should not return it to the waters you caught it out of. It could be an invasive species and could eventually displace the native species. Just look at all the problems we have here in the USA with invasive species. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gummug Posted July 8, 2012 #21 Share Posted July 8, 2012 (edited) The angler's mistake was returning it to the pond. If you don't know what kind of fish it is you just caught, you should not return it to the waters you caught it out of. It could be an invasive species and could eventually displace the native species. Just look at all the problems we have here in the USA with invasive species. I agree. I was wondering myself why he returned it to the pond, thereby losing what proof he had of its existence (except for the photo). Also, when they talked about the "head of a roach", I thought they meant the head of a roach as in cockroach. I didn't know there was a roach fish. *doh* Edited July 8, 2012 by Gummug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varelse Posted July 11, 2012 #22 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Mmm... more unprocessed fishsticks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFO_Monster Posted July 11, 2012 #23 Share Posted July 11, 2012 I don't know if this has any truth to it, but one of the people in the comments section posted a possible explanation for the fish's appearance: Just a goldfish. I did this a few years ago putting a black goldfish into a pond with about 20 12-18 inch koi. It doubled in size in just three weeks and changed to a very similar pale gold colour. Just thought it was interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Englishgent Posted July 11, 2012 #24 Share Posted July 11, 2012 It is a type of ornamental fish. Common in asian countries. I agree with some others here that the angler was wrong to release it back into the lake. Nothing strange about it. Link to photo of same type of fish :- http://danzjager.deviantart.com/art/ornamental-fish-55579472 The ''marine boffins'' were not very good boffins if they didnt know this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali smack Posted July 17, 2012 #25 Share Posted July 17, 2012 I hope he put the poor fish back in the water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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