A commercial fisherman knew he was staring at a fish out of place when a barracuda landed in his net on Vancouver Island, far from its typical habitat in southern California. Tyler Vogrig, 24, said he'd seen the long, silvery body of the muscular fish with giant teeth before, but in Hawaii. His father has been fishing for 40 years and had never seen a barracuda in British Columbia waters, he said. Jackie King, a research scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, said the presence of Pacific barracuda in British Columbia waters is rare. "But we have had some recorded in our commercial fisheries as far back as 1987 and then huge gaps between when they're appearing again,'' King said, adding a barracuda was spotted in British Columbia in 2016 and 2019.

Source: CBC News July 15, 2020 20:03 UTC