hey guys, today and yesterday I found these weird looking almost "puffer" like fish washed up on shore. they had these weird spikes on them that actually hurt when I touched them (wouldn't want to step on on of these), and a set of flat teeth. I don't think I've seen one of these before, but they reminded me of a puffer-fish I caught once while fishing, except it was brown and didn't have razor death spikes on it. anyone have any idea of what kind of fish this is, and where it came from? Here are some pictures I took today: this one is of its stomach, which was a weird orangey yellow color
i wouldnt be suprised... there was a weird brown "substance?" all over the sand today. but it was probably just the fish proteins you see in the foam after hurricanes
That's super cool. There's 121 species of puffer's.I'm no fish expert by any means, but I agree it looks like some kind of puffer fish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffer_fish There tropical. Their found in very warm waters, but of course maybe with global warming..... I always wanted a blow fish in my own fish tank. There so cool. A lot of work though.
Looks like a spiny boxfish (burrfish): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_burrfish They have a hard "shell" unlike your normal puffer fish there and their spines are visible all the time. Also they suck to step on when they wash up dead.
every year about this time tropical fish come up w/ the Gulf Stream and they live for a short time then they die I've seen Sunfish, Gars, even things looked liked Clown fish in the surf right off Monmouth County - nothing to do w/ global warming its normal
good to eat? Are these puffer fish OK to eat? I was catching these at OBX and giving them to a guy who said they were good to eat.
