Fwd: Sea Dragon King
Md Jamil Bin Aris
From: james cham <james....@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Subject: Fwd: Sea Dragon King
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The Chinese may believe that eating it they will be "ngangkanitis". This beautiful fish should be protected.
What the Japanese and Taiwanese call "Sea Dragon Fish" is known as OARFISH in the Western world. This fish is probably the cause of many sea monster reports. According to Japanese folklore, this fish is the harbinger of tsunami and earthquake. Please see article below, lifted from UK's The Telegraph...
By Julian Ryall in Tokyo
7:00AM GMT 04 Mar 2010
The appearance of the fish follows Saturday's destructive 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile and the January 12 tremors in Haiti, which claimed an estimated 200,000 lives.
A quake with a magnitude of 6.4 has also struck southern Taiwan.
This rash of tectonic movements around the Pacific "Rim of Fire" is heightening concern that Japan - the most earthquake-prone country in the world - is next in line for a major earthquake.
Those concerns have been stoked by the unexplained appearance of a fish that is known traditionally as the Messenger from the Sea God's Palace.
The giant oarfish can grow up to five metres in length and is usually to be found at depths of 1,000 metres and very rarely above 200 metres from the surface. Long and slender with a dorsal fin the length of its body, the oarfish resembles a snake.
Amazing sea creature - Sea Dragon King
皇帶魚 又名"地震魚" http://zh/..wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9A%87%E5%B8%B6%E9%AD%9A
皇帶魚生活在深海的中、上層，作波浪式的蛇行運動。由於數量稀小，習性幾乎未被研究過。
關於皇帶魚的傳說很多，歐洲漁民稱它為「海魔王」。因它常伴隨鯡魚游動，被認為是鯡魚的保護者，
因而有「鯡魚王」之稱。由於它的背鰭的絲狀鰭條，有時形成雞冠狀，並可隨時垂舉，
故日本漁民則稱之為「海底宮殿的公雞」。許多人認為古代航海者相傳的大海蛇就是來自皇帶魚。
歷史上有關捕獲皇帶魚的記載甚少，坊間更流傳著生活在深海水域的皇帶魚除非因為地質出現大變動，
例如發生地震，否則鮮有海到淺水的海域而改變棲息環境，因此被捕獲的機會極微，
亦因為這樣的生活特性，才會被稱為「地震魚」，相傳皇帶魚會因地震而受驚游至淺水避難，
所以牠的出現即預示了會有大地震的發生。
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