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Found this in a small cave wile hunting for crays. The head is hard like a stargazer. Paua in its gutts.
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i thought it was an interesting creature. haven't noticed them before. I think it had white vertical stripes down the body.
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easy to identify, its my mother in law.
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beauty smile huh
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Possibly a Maori chief Notothenia angustata.
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Its a Sea kitten, and you killed it Angry
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Id say its a Maori chief also known as a black cod.  Where did you get it?
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MJL suggested black cod too though i haven't found pictures that match on the net. I was out around banks peninsula Sunday, when all of a sudden this mysterious creature swam flat out into my spear. Having never spotted one before I swam him back to the tin machine for further study
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yeah prob is the Notothenia angustata going by the drawings google searches produce
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That looks pretty big - the Maori Chief on some sites I was looking at is only supposed to get like 40cm long?
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These are the only two coloured pics I could find.
 
 
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that was definitely 40cm. felt heavy for the size too, perhaps something about that rock like head
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yup thats it. pattern is the same, looks like small one? anyone eaten them? would be fun trying to find them with a small gun and torch.
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Black cod Notothenia microlepidota (I'm sure of the common name but not so much the scientific).  They're meant to be a big antartic version of a blennie.  Apparently not an uncommon sight to Southland slug divers.
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Originally posted by kuuni kuuni wrote:

That looks pretty big - the Maori Chief on some sites I was looking at is only supposed to get like 40cm long?
 
Mr Malcom Francis suggests more like 60cm in length. 
 
Possible new spearfishing record if bigger then 3.4kg?
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oh gutted, its in the river now. i'm going to get out there and smash over the record haha
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Having killed it, I hope you ate it!
What's the cheapest type of meat? Dear balls. They're under a buck.
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Notothenia angustata    
Maori chief   
41.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 9003))

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=47001
Many a mickle makes a muckle
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finatic, i filleted it, was already to drop it in a curry but was not all that keen to go there without knowing what it was.
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