Fish hitches a ride?

[Lee Borgersen]

                     Fish hitches ride

 
Fish hitches ride on 2011 tsunami debris, arrives in Washington state
A striped beakfish swims in a water-filled well or bait box, March 22, aboard a 20-foot-long Japanese boat that washed ashore recently at Long Beach, Wash. Biologists say five of the fish, plus other Japanese species of sea creatures, arrived alive, apparently hitching a ride across the Pacific Ocean on debris believed to have come from the March 2011 Japanese tsunami

The fish that survived a nearly 5,000-mile trip across the Pacific Ocean is now on display at the Seaside Aquarium in Oregon.

The Striped Beakfish turned up in possible Japan tsunami debris found on the shore at Long Beach, Wash.

The fish is common off the shores of Japan or China, but not the Northwest. Experts initially found five of the fish alive in the debris. They euthanized four of them for study, but they kept one to put on display.