8-year-old boy catches a piranha while fishing with dad at Pennsylvania lake

An 8-year-old boy’s unexpected catch during a fishing trip at a lake near Philadelphia has raised concerns about exotic pets being introduced into local waterways.On Saturday morning, Seamus Coffey, 8, reeled in a 2-lb red-bellied piranha, which he initially thought might be a large bass while he was fishing with his dad at a lake outside the city."I'm reeling it in, and I think there's a bass," Seamus said, ABC reported.His father, Michael Coffey, thought it was unlike anything they had caught before. "I was like, 'Slow down, dude, you might lose it. This looks like something we haven't caught before.'"The boy, however, identified the fish from YouTube videos and alerted his father, Michael, to the unusual catch.“I was like, 'Oh, this is a bluegill, I don't know what this is.' And he said, 'It's a piranha!'” Michael recalled.Pic courtesy: Facebook/ Mike Coffey The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission spokesman, Mike Parker, later confirmed the fish species as a piranha. "Our biologists have confirmed that this is some species of piranha," Parker said.Michael shared pictures of the catch on Facebook. “At this point you can’t put anything past Seamus. Today he caught a 2lb red bell...