Amazonian Fish That Eats Testicles Caught In New Jersey Lake (Video)

New Jersey family identify pacu fish by human-like teeth. Rare Amazonian fish called ‘the Nutcracker’, which eats men’s testicles with its human-like teeth, is caught in New Jersey lake. Ron Rossi, of Delran, New Jersey, was fishing with son and caught a pacu. Pair originally thought it was a piranha, but it had strange human-like teeth. Environmental officials suspect someone kept it as a pet and released it. Native to Brazil, the pacu has been spotted in spots around the world such as Scandinavia, Washington state and Paris in recent years. Fish believed to have killed two men in New Guinea after biting genitals.

A father and son fishing at a New Jersey lake may be lucky their bodies still have all their pieces after catching a fish called ‘the Nutcracker’ that is more commonly seen in the Amazon. Ron Rossi, from the Philadelphia suburb of Delran, was out with his son Frank at a man-made body of water when they hooked what they thought was a piranha. However, the rare species in Swedes Lake was actually a pacu, an omnivorous fish native to Brazil that has human-like teeth and has been reported to eat the testicles of swimmers and fishermen. The Rossis realized the bizarre find when they went home and researched the animal after being confused at its lack of sharp, piranha chompers, they told WPVI. Department of Environmental Protection officials said the South American fish are sometimes kept as pets, who may have dumped the pacu into the lake. The species can grow up to four feet long and uses its molar-like teeth to crush food that falls into the Amazon River.

Many pet owners mistakenly think they are piranhas when they purchase the more famous species’s cousin, which can grow up to 55lbs. Given the fish’s worldwide popularity, it turns out that the Rossis did not make the surprise catch of the century, or even of the last couple years. A 10-inch pacu was caught in northern New Jersey in September 2013, followed by 17-incher in Washington state, a 20-inch specimen in southern Illinois two months later and a 14-inch pacu in Michigan’s Lake St Clair last summer. New Jersey family identify pacu fish by human-like teeth.

Source NJ.COM

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