article_snippet.sent: Scientists are baffled after discovering a rare deep sea oarfish had washed up on a salt marsh in New Zealand.
article_snippet.sent: Department of Conservation service manager David Agnew pictured with a three-metre oarfish which washed up at the entrance of the Otago Harbour on Thursday .
article_snippet.sent: ‘some images got back to Conservation service manager David Agnew very quickly to say it was an oarfish, which I had never heard of.
article_snippet.sent: It has even been suggested that the Loch Ness Monster was an oarfish.
article_snippet.sent: Oarfish are typically often found hundreds of metres underwater.
article_snippet.sent: Oarfish’s likely the fish was moved here from a very strong current,’ Mr Agnew said.
highlights_snippet.sent: The three-metre oarfish washed up on a salt marsh on the Otago Harbour .
  