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Oh, it's a fish. There's a fish straight down, going off the bottom of the screen right now.

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Wow. That's quite a big fish.

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Alright, Chris.

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Okay. This is one of our favorite fish.

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This is a type of anglerfish, in the family Lophiidae.

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It's an ambush predator. They sit very motionless, they hardly ever move unless they're touched.

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And it waits until prey comes to it and then gulps its prey.

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Bruce, the scale on this suggests that it's quite big --approaching 20 to 30 centimeters.

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Is that typical for this kind of fish?

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These grow to a larger, bulkier size than a lot of the fish that we see.

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Interesting. But yeah, you're right. It is an exceptionally large fish for this environment.