Three-eyed catfish appeared in New York

According to the New York Times, the video appeared online on November 9, showing a man catching a catfish about the size of a shoe, lying motionless on a concrete floor, his forehead a small eye.

Sentence of catfish has three eyes on Gowanus channel

The image of the three-eyed catfish was said by John Waldman, a professor of biology at Queen's University, to be a fraud, because it is a freshwater catfish, while the Gowanus channel is a saltwater canal.

"Not only that, the fish obviously died , " Waldman said. "Catfish can live for hours on land".

However, November 10, Greg Hunter, 34, worked in a wine store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, claiming the fish was real. When he was eating lunch on November 8 in the park near Gowanus Canal, Whole Foods, he noticed that many people surrounded a fisherman on the Third Street Bridge across the canal.

The third eye lies between the head of the fish.(Photo: Gothamist).

"I asked," What's wrong? " And they answered, " He caught a three-eyed catfish " . Hunter added, anglers seem annoyed by the crowd's trouble. However, Hunter still asked him to touch the third eye of the fish.

"I poked it, to see if it was real , " Hunter said. "It's shiny, it looks like a cataract. Clearly, it's an eye."

The famous Gowanus Channel in Brooklyn because of heavy pollution. Professor Waldman said that if the fish is real, there must be some flow of fresh water, flowing right out of the bridge canal. Eymund Diegel, an environmentalist working in the New York park management department, who studies salinity, Gowanus Channel, said there was a very small flow of freshwater, existing at the foot of Third Street.

The bridge crosses the Gowanus canal.(Photo: NYTimes).

According to Pix11, some people were not surprised by the fish, they said, with such a high level of pollution, it was not strange to find it.

"Three eyes really surprised me," said Chris McManus, a resident of Park Slope. "I thought it would take more than 10 eyes."

"If there's really fish living down there, I feel sad for them," McManus said.