They are ancient animals that live at incredible depths and come to the waters between NZ and Australia to breed... they commenced fishing them less than 10 years as shallower feeding fish became scarce..
The patgonian tooth fish was almost unknown to people 10 years ago... now it is virtually extinct..
Japanese, Indonesian and Taiwanese fishing boats come and clean them out when breeding in protected areas.. If they are not stopped right now the fish will be extinct in a very short time.
*oops think they breed south of Western australia now I think about it.. google will know if you really care
Last edited by Opti at Aug 28 2003, 10:26 PM