A young man has been left bewildered after finding this massive "strange-looking" fish while digging a hole in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state. According to Facebook user, Emmanuel Emmanuel Udoh, he was carrying out excavations in a building site when he saw the fish which was supposed to be in water.

Udoh is however questioning if the fish moved to dry land due to pollution in the river.

Read the post he shared on Facebook

About yesterday! OK ..while excavating in a residential /built-up area I found lots of this. And they are quite huge! This one na small one sef ..For real......

Before I ask if it's edible. I wonder what could make fishes leave the rivers and streams to shallow waters in residential areas.

Could it be that the natural waters have been so destroyed by oil exploration, that they now migrate to safer waters with less pollution or it's just a natural occurrence?

Now is this edible? Cos they are lots of them here

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2017/08/man-catches-type-fish-excavating-residential-area-bayelsa-photo.html

That is Heterobranchus longifilis

In my language it is called IDU AKA mud fish.

Just a lungfish whats the big deal.

Is that guy even a Nigerian? Nigerian that can eat lion and cat is asking if 'fish' is edible.

pepper soup ingredient

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maybe they followed the tide of the river to come for convention (meeting) on the mainland and were busy gisting so the water left them behind .lol

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it can live out of water and without water for years

That will make a good soup this evening.

African Lung fish... Popularly called Ebieseni in Ijaw.

It hibernates inside ground when the land gets dry and can stay for up to a year until it rains and the ground gets wet. It's very common in Bayelsa and Delta state.

Its the sweetest fish ever when smoked or dried. Taste like meat.

HMN

Cool, me likey

Metro Baba, Oya Show. That Pepper Soup Is Ready.

I think say Na lalasticlala food.

Spiritual fish

Not safe for consumption as long as it is from Bayelsa.

Its a giant tadpole

Fish without water?

Home cooking straight

Those are air breathing catfish.
They survive both on land (limited period) & in water.
And yes they are edible with some weighing as much of 50kg and 5ft in lenght.

Hehehe, this Okama Abe aka kedumbelele

Wow. Mud fish. Dem sweet eh.

Point and kill

Bayelsa State can make a lot of money from their Aqua resources but the Government is something else.

Fish peppersoup don sure be that

emorse:
Is that guy even a poor Nigerian? Poor Nigerians that can eat lion and cat is asking if 'fish' is edible.

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