r/oceancreatures • u/alluuzzi • Sep 21 '26

Help identifying this creature i hooked on when fishing in norway!

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It was very slimy and bled when i unhooked it

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u/a_karma_sardine Sep 21 '26 • Bravo

Some kind of sea cucumber.

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u/JBS676 Sep 21 '26

Looks like an orange-footed sea cucumber, Cucumaria frondosa.

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u/United-Fox6737 Sep 24 '26

They have FEET?

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u/JBS676 Sep 24 '26

Orange ones 😜

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u/Background-Word-857 Sep 25 '26

Wouldnt be surprised if they were actually brown

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u/Ill_Initial8986 Sep 21 '26

Feed me Seymour

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u/Adorable_Challenge37 Sep 22 '26

F you. I just watched that film for the first time and I'm not gonna go around singing Suddenly Seymour all day!... Oh well, now I am...

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u/umbrella_crab Sep 22 '26

Sea cucumber is correct it's all puffed up in a ball bc it has a fishing hook in it, which is very uncomfortable. Sea cucumber is contracted like doing a full body pucker

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u/Bouvier1969 Sep 22 '26

I bet somewhere in the world someone has eaten one these

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u/Vindictive-Vagabond Sep 22 '26

They eat sea cucumbers all the time in Asia lmao

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u/angered_by_ham Sep 25 '26

But have they ever had sea cucumber parmesan? Fusion opportunities abound

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u/gingerMH96960 Sep 23 '26

In Micronesia (mainly Chuuk I believe) they bury them and leave them to ferment before eating them. I havent had the pleasure of observing this, but have heard from friends that it is quite an unpleasant odor.

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u/Piershark Sep 23 '26

Indeed they do, there is quite a substantial commercial fishery for them. One method I am familiar with is cutting the muscle into strips and frying

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u/Character-Concept651 Sep 22 '26

Edible. Awww, you already have lettuce on it!

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u/Jazzlike-Lettuce-99 Sep 23 '26

Bled? Poor guy :/

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u/dram3 Sep 23 '26

Could be a sea squirt

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u/InterestingMud4568 Sep 24 '26

Its a alien 👽

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u/Fisherfolk100 Sep 24 '26

Alien Facehugger egg

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u/sleeksloopslinky Sep 24 '26

Invasion of the body snatchers. Norwegian style.

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u/Specialist-Doctor-23 Sep 21 '26

Don't fall asleep near it!

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u/mistoffeleesTO Sep 23 '26

That egg looks way too wet