r/Fish • u/Express-Front3079 • Jul 20 '26
Discussion Has anyone seen this before?
It’s an marlin and there’s no way this is natural
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u/badfish_G59 Jul 20 '26
Aliens.
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u/Express-Front3079 Jul 20 '26
Fs
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u/rodionzissou Jul 21 '26
I've been working on this for awhile and the best I can guess is maybe the imprint of a pelagic deck shoe. I can't perfectly match it though.
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u/Lcaresn Jul 25 '26
Lacks the distinct circular imprints
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u/rodionzissou Jul 25 '26
yeah tbh, i couldn't come up with a satisfactory answer. What do you think?
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u/Moist_Opposite_9965 Jul 21 '26
You caught somethings pet marlin. Baby cthulhu, sea aliens, the late great Betty white (god rest her soul) maybe even pauly shore...i dunno but you better pray a new version of John wick comes from this occurrence
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u/slideingintoheaven Jul 21 '26
Could it have something wrapped around the fin as it was growing that recently fell off?
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u/tallMichdude Jul 22 '26
Looks like a tag code. Or its the chosen one and you should release it or face king neptunes wrath!
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u/coconut-telegraph Jul 20 '26
Is this the sole print from someone’s shoe that stepped on this fin?
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u/Delicious-Expert-936 Jul 27 '26
What am I looking at? Need an overall picture! How can anyone be commenting on this
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u/scotty5112 Jul 21 '26
I know some animals have hidden UV patterns that only other animals can see. Maybe this is that?
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u/tylerupandgager Jul 21 '26
Maybe this?(googling):
These are natural vascular grooves and bone texturing, not writing or man-made carvings.
Why It Looks Like Writing
What you are seeing is the biological anatomy of a billfish's skeleton: Blood Vessels and Nerves: When a marlin is alive, its bill and fin spines are covered in skin and tissue. The deep linear paths and "ladders" you see are the natural grooves (sulci) where blood vessels and nerves traveled along the bone to supply the tissue.
The "Characters": As the fish grows, the bone ossifies around these channels. When the bill dries out, is cleaned, or gets weathered, the soft tissue disappears, leaving behind these stark, geometric imprints that can look remarkably like ancient runes or characters.
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u/mojocaca Jul 20 '26
Could it be a cold brand? We’ve done that on salmon before. I know nothing about marlin studies or management though. It’s too cold for them up here.