"Not a normal blue," Silva said. "It was moving, and it was fish that was not supposed to be there." This unexpected sighting highlights environmental anomalies.
According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, the blue angelfish typically inhabits Bermuda and along the coast of the Americas from North Carolina to the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, a far cry from Cape Cod.
Stephanie Ellis, the executive director of Wild Care, says she has never received a tropical fish in her eight years at the nonprofit. This speaks volumes about the rarity of the sighting.
The juvenile blue angelfish is the northernmost ever reported according to the Gulf Stream Orphan Project, demonstrating changing marine habitats.
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