Nylon bag in the belly of a fish

Handfin live on Earth 400 million years ago but is threatened by pollution of plastic waste.

, fish species such as "living fossils" are facing ocean waste. The Green Planet Association, an environmental organization in the UK, shares a photo of a handfish with a garbage bag stuck in the gut on August 8. According to the organization, the photo was taken by Indonesian fishermen in 2016 but was not previously shared, IFL Science reported.

Hand finfish die with plastic bags in the abdomen.(Photo: Twitter).

Fins are among the most exotic fish living in the deep sea. This ugly fish has remained virtually unchanged over the past 400 million years, present on Earth more than 160 million years before the first dinosaur appeared. Researchers once thought that the finfish were extinct millions of years before they were found swimming in deep water in the Indian Ocean off South Africa in 1938.

Indonesia finfish , one of the two living species of finfin, is included in the list of vulnerable species in the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List (IUCN). Conservation experts estimate that only 10,000 individuals mature in nature. Although they are not valuable in terms of food, they are easily caught by fishermen. Due to their long history and ugly appearance, hand fin fish are often hunted for sale to aquariums but specimens often cannot live long in captivity.

found in the most remote locations in the world, from the Mariana ocean trench at a depth of nearly 11,000 meters below sea level to Antarctic ice. In particular, micro-plastic particles can be absorbed into the human body. Plastic waste is not biodegradable and can exist for tens or even hundreds of years.