Two fishermen bled out and died last year after the toothy fish attacked them; the victims’ testicles were long gone.
“The locals told me that this thing was like a human in the water, biting at the testicles of fishermen,” Jeremy Wade, a British fisherman, told reporters.
Pacu fish are native to Amazon Basin, but were dumped in Papua New Guinea to invigorate fisheries; the biologists determine that the Pacu fish swimming in Illinois are abandoned pets.
