I’m all for introducing people to knew things, and reading about things I didn’t know about before, but this is just not honest reporting. It’s designed to get passed around on Facebook and if they make it seem ordinary, people won’t pass it around.

They’ve taken a Facebook post, and editorialized it specifically to make it sound very special.

If you wrote the same article about someone catching a salmon would you say “the fish was identified as a salmon”?

They also could have easily said “these fish are common in coastal waters, and caught and eaten all the time” but they purposefully left that out.