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will a ling hit a sculpin? just wondering how a ling would eat a fish with poisinous spines?

will a ling hit a sculpin? just wondering how a ling would eat a fish with poisinous spines?

They eat rockfish. I have always wondered how they manage to eat them tail first with all those venomous spines.

here is a ling that got a sculpin (cabezon) , this was on the norcal skindivers site:

http://www.norcalskindivers.com/g1/slides/DSC02530New.html

john

will a ling hit a sculpin? just wondering how a ling would eat a fish with poisinous spines?

They eat rockfish. I have always wondered how they manage to eat them tail first with all those venomous spines.

I think they turn them around before eating, and eat head first (but then maybe it gets moved around in the stomach again).