A good reason to be aware of where you’re at and what you are doing. I went fishing today…in Florida. I’m from MA. Well I caught a pufferfish. The fisherman next to me was kind enough to remove it from my line. I know they are dangerous and googled this when I got back to the condo:
Few fish are cuter than a fully expanded, portly pufferfish — but don’t be fooled. The pufferfish is the second most poisonous vertebrate on the planet. Fishermen recommend the use of thick gloves to avoid poisoning and the risk of getting bitten when removing the hook. The poison of a pufferfish, which has no antidote, kills by paralyzing the diaphragm, causing suffocation.
Nearly all pufferfish contain tetrodotoxin, a substance that makes them taste bad (and sometimes lethal) to fish. According to National Geographic, tetrodotoxin is deadly, up to 1,200 times more poisonous than cyanide. One pufferfish has enough toxin to kill 30 adults.
I hope that you didn’t throw it back.
The local who took it off the hook tossed it back in.