Wildlife officials in Washington state in the US have found an unusual stowaway aboard a Japanese boat believed to have washed ashore with debris from the 2011 tsunami.
The live fish, identified as a striped beakfish, appears to have survived the 5,000 mile (8,000km) journey in a wooden skiff just 5.5m-long.
The boat arrived on the Washington coastline on March 22 and the fish was discovered by a Department of Fish and Wildlife official in a bait box while he was collecting samples of marine organisms from the vessel.
The striped beakfish, which is primarily found in shallow Asian waters such as coral reefs, appears to have survived the trip by feeding on other organisms in the boat.
It is now being studied by scientists at the Seaside Aquarium in Seaside, Oregon, where it has also become a popular attraction for visitors.
"People are pretty fascinated about seeing this fish and the fact that it came all the way over from Japan in the debris, so it has been a pretty cool event," said Keith Chandler, the general manager of the aquarium.
The bait box also contained seaweed, crabs, barnacles, amphipods and other marine organisms.
Last year a huge concrete dock washed up on the Oregon coast after drifting across the Pacific Ocean from Japan.
The tsunami resulted from a magnitude-8.9 earthquake, which battered the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, killing more than 19,000 people and sparking a nuclear crisis.
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