Furious sea lion gets his revenge on fisherman after being caught in net

THIS is the remarkable moment a furious sea lion freed from a fisherman’s net clamps his jaws around his captor’s shoulder and flings him across the boat.

THIS is the terrifying moment an angry sea lion took its revenge on a fisherman.

The furious creature clamps its jaws around the man’s shoulder and launches him across the boat deck.

It had just been cut free after being accidentally caught in a net.

The distressed animal wriggles completely free from the net as the fishermen back away shouting.

It then turns on a dog who has wandered innocently over, lurching towards it with mouth open before giving it a bite too.

The dog barks and flees and the sea lion is left calmly looking around.

Eventually the men manage to hose the enormous sea lion off their boat.

The sea lion thunders towards a curious dog.

Adult male sea lions can weigh over 400kg, while females weigh 85-160kg.

The Russian video identifies the animal as a steller sea lion, a near-threatened species found off northern Pacific coasts from Japan to California.

The steller sea lion is the largest of all five species found in the world.

It hunts fish, squid, octopus and occasionally, smaller seals, according to National Geographic.

Sea lions are carnivores and can weigh up to 400kg.

Males will aggressively defend harems of up to 25 females from other males in breeding season.

Younger pups are sometimes crushed by large, powerful males (bulls) seeking to establish a beach territory for breeding.

Steller sea lion populations declined markedly in the 1980s and 1990s, even though the animals are protected.

Every year, sea lions are accidentally drowning by fishing boats, with New Zealand setting an annual limit for its fisheries of 6000 sea lion deaths.

Sea lions are used to aggressively defending their territory.