Marine life Question

[Diesel298]

ok im by no means good at marine life identification..
striper lobster.. shark.. if i cant eat it.. or it cant eat me i generaly dont care....
on the Crane barge sunday afternoon/night a few guys saw this monster eel.. or what they think was a eel it was a night dive at that point, and i was already on the boat, so i missed it, but they said it had a flounder in its mouth. and the flounder was a "keeper" and the estimated lenght of this was about 6 feet + and was black...
what around here falls into that discription?
commin i know theres alot of fish identification people out here.

 

[2TH DIVR]

Maybe a wolf fish

 

[Diesel298]

o and they said it was really really really POed

 

[Gidds]

Ummm how does one determine whether or not a fish is POed? I'm guessing you mean aggressive? There are a variety of decent-sized serpentine fish in New England but I shall have to check my fish books and see which are piscivorous. For some reason I thought wolf fish were more into mollusks and hit a max or around 5-6' but I may be wrong. To the books I go!

 

[salty]

Nessie ??

 

[Gidds]

Nessie likes freshwater, no vis., and eats kippers and tourists

 

[Diesel298]

thats what he said. it looked like one POed MF

 

[Diesel298]

mabye it was a leppard fish?

 

[Gidds]

What in heck is a leopard fish? Does POed MF translate to having massive teeth? Big protrusive teeth sounds like a wolf fish while leopard fish makes me think about an eel pout or something similar.

 

[RIOceanographer]

We do have a species of eel that grows in excess of 6 feet and they can be almost black in color. They also happen to eat fish. It is called the conger eel (Conger oceanicus).

Here are some pictures of it I googled.... I suppose it does look sort of like a PO'd MF....

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/pages/conger.html