Swedish Fishermen Pull Out Piranha-Like ’Ball-Cutter’
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In the cold waters of the Nordic, a group of amateur fishermen managed to pull out from a local canal a three kilogram heavy pacu, a close relative to the notorious killer fish.
The rare catch happened in the city of Norrköping, which is home to the Motala Stream, a 100 kilometer long river system that drains lake Vättern, Sweden's second largest, into the Baltic Sea.
According to Jonathan Rosales, he often goes fishing with friends. The catch usually includes local predators like perch and pike. Exotic species like the pacu have, of course, never been encountered in Norrköping's peaceful vicinity.
By Rosales' own admission, he and his friends were fishing with roach as baitfish and had several rods in the water, when they saw a shadow moving in the water. Suddenly, the bait was gone. Shortly thereafter, the shadow re-appeared and bit the hook.
"We all had to step in to pull it out. However, it became calmer when we dragged it out of the water," Jonathan Rosales related his unique experience to Swedish national broadcaster SVT.
On the hook, they saw a three kilogram heavy monster of a fish, unusually ugly and with razor-sharp teeth. Since the fish did not remotely resemble anything they had seen before they photographed it and, good-natured as they were, released it back into the water - something they most likely regretted afterwards.
The pacu is an omnivorous freshwater fish related to the piranha. Unlike its notorious relative, the pacu mainly feeds on plant material, yet can reach much larger, uncanny sizes of up to one meter in length and 40 kilograms in weight. It is known to be highly invasive and spreads quickly in favorable conditions.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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