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No idea what it is but if it's got a claw like that then I would say, yes, definitely possible it's been eating your fish if it can catch them. They usually strike when the fish are asleep.
No Fightingfish that's not the correct answer.
Please do not release it into the wild. There are way to many invasive species out there already and that is exactly how most of them came about.