Detecting a sudden 'water monster' in the Fukushima Sea

A Japanese fisherman was shocked when he caught a mutant wolves, twice the size of normal waters off the coast of this country, near the Fukushima nuclear power plant - the place where a nuclear disaster happened before. 4 years.

Catching mutant wolves on the Fukushima Sea

The bizarre wolf fish has a mouth so wide that it can swallow a small child. Along with the big head that is superior to the body, it looks like a sea monster coming from a science fiction movie.

According to the fisherman Hirasaka Hiroshi, he caught the giant wolves off the island of Hokkaido. "This booty is worth me flying to Hokkaido twice in just 3 months. The fish is super impressive , " Hiroshi said in the Daily Star.

Fishermen Hirasaka Hiroshi and giant wolves.

Experts say wolves often live in Pacific and Atlantic waters. As a resident of deep water, this fish often eats smaller creatures that reside on the seabed. They are famous for possessing "big" body sizes and scary looks.

Usually, the wolves grow to about 1.2 meters long and weigh about 15kg, but the wolves Hirasaka caught up to nearly 2 meters long, according to The Sun newspaper.

Hirasaka's spoils are once again raising concerns among Japanese fishermen about the effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident on local fishes.

The wolf fish caught by Hirasaka is nearly 2m long.

The catastrophic melting and nuclear leak at Fukushima Daiichi power plant stems from a magnitude 8.9 earthquake in 2011. Not only did it kill 18,500 people, this earthquake also caused tsunamis. and the largest nuclear disaster in the world since the Chernobyl incident in 1986. In the following years, some waters near the Fukushima plant were found to still be contaminated with radioactivity up to 2,500 times.

Last year, people also caught giant mutant catfish near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine.