rare pink handfish sighted in australia after decades

A rare and endangered pink handfish has been spotted for the first time in 22 years in the Australian state of Tasmania. The Australian Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Environment announced that the pink handfish was found while the endangered fish were displayed in the image taken with the underwater camera at the Tasman Fracture Marine Park. The fish found in the study conducted by Marine scientist and marine biologist Associate Professor Neville Barrett and Dr. Jacquomo Monk, which is described as ‘the discovery of a needle in a haystack’. “Up until this observation, the pink handfish had only been seen 4 times. This is an exciting discovery and gives us hope that the pink handfish will survive,” Barret said. The pink handfish was last seen by a diver in 1999.