A Fisherman in Croatia Pulled the World's Deadliest Fish Out of the Sea
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According to local media, a fisherman caught a silver-striped pufferfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus) in the sea near Rijeka. It is an invasive species that contains the extremely dangerous poison tetrodotoxin, so he handed over the approximately 1.5 kilogram fish to the Natural History Museum in Rijeka.
The silver-striped pufferfish is also known as the fugu, and is a species that contains tetrodotoxin, an extremely potent neurotoxin.
A fisherman in Croatia pulled the deadliest fish in the world out of the sea - The fisherman from Rijeka thought he had hooked the bottom, and a few moments later he realized that he had a dangerous inflator on the hook
Although the catch weighed one and a half kilograms, the potential danger was far greater. This species carries tetrodotoxin in its body — an extremely strong neurotoxin that, if consumed, can cause severe poisoning and even death.
The dangerous and extremely poisonous silver-striped pufferfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus) has been recorded again in the Adriatic Sea. Dražen Puškaš from Rijeka recently pulled a specimen weighing one and a half kilograms from the sea at a local position, not realizing at the first moment that he was holding one of the most dangerous marine species on the hook. This poisonous and invasive fish contains extremely potent poison tetrodotoxin, which…
Rijeka fisherman Dražen Puškaš, while fishing from the shore of the river, caught an extremely poisonous fish, the silver-striped pufferfish, whose tissue contains tetrodotoxin, a poison 1250 times more powerful than cyanide, reports Novi list.
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