There's a familiar beast plaguing the fish of the Jersey coast: a tongue-eating isopod.
Mr Chambers told BBC Jersey: "When we emptied the fish bag out there at the bottom was this incredibly ugly looking isopod.
"Really quite large, really quite hideous - if you turn it over its got dozens of these really sharp, nasty claws underneath and I thought 'that's a bit of a nasty beast'.
"I struggled for weeks to find an identification for this thing until, quite by chance I stumbled across something that looked similar in a Victorian journal.
"Apparently there's not too much ill effect to the fish itself except it's lost its tongue."
As we scientists like to say in our inimitably technical manner: ewwwww.
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