However, the aquarium said wolf eels are not usually targeted by fishermen–such as the ones who carefully placed the eels back in the water in the aforementioned TikTok videos. "Every time I question whether my fear of the ocean is irrational, something like this reminds me that it's not," another user said. "You are showing me something I've literally never seen in 35 years," one user told Rockhold. TikTokers, a few of whom admitted they had never seen wolf eels prior to the video, were quite smitten with these creatures. When asked if the wolf eels enjoy eating crab, he humorously replied, "It's like an underwater crab buffet." Rockhold, in a comment under one of his videos, said even he "was kind of tripping" when he saw the eels in the traps. "That thing is so ugly."Īdditional videos apparently posted on the same day include two other wolf eels caught in traps. "Dude, are you kidding me?" said one fisherman overheard in the background. Rockhold said a big fishbone vertebra is in the eel's mouth when it was brought to the surface.
#JUVENILE WOLF EEL PROFESSIONAL#
The video, posted on TikTok April 14 by professional surfer and commercial fisherman Matt Rockhold, features a gray-colored creature known as a wolf eel that got caught in a crap trap during a fishing expedition in Monterey Bay. A video of wolf eels being caught in crab traps has captivated the internet to the tune of 64 million views and counting.
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