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Scientists at WHOI used satellite tracking to discover that bigscale pomfret, a mid-sized fish, spend significant time in the ocean's twilight zone, acting as a crucial link between surface and deep ecosystems, and their behavior is influenced by environmental factors like water clarity, highlighting the importance of mid-sized predators in marine food webs.
Scientists have discovered a new species of deep-sea snailfish, called the bumpy snailfish, at depths of over 13,500 feet off the California coast, highlighting the incredible biodiversity of the deep ocean.
A study confirms that deep-sea mesopelagic fish, like the blackbelly rosefish, excrete carbonate minerals at rates similar to shallow-water species, highlighting their significant role in ocean carbonate production and the global carbon cycle.
Divers off the coast of Taiwan encountered a rare giant oarfish in shallow water, a sighting that is typically rare as these deep-sea fish are usually found at depths between 200 and 1000 feet. The oarfish appeared to be wounded, contrary to the legend that sightings of the fish with glittering silver on its body are a sign of an impending disaster. Oarfish are not dangerous to humans as they lack teeth and feed on plankton. In Japanese folklore, oarfish sightings are believed to be an omen of an impending disaster, but scientists have found no scientific evidence to support this connection.
Scientists have captured images of the deepest-swimming fish ever caught on camera, a previously unknown snailfish species of the genus Pseudoliparis, swimming in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench off the coast of Japan at a depth of 8,336 meters. The fish was recorded during an August 2022 mission to several trenches around Japan, part of a decade-long study of the world's deepest fish populations. The previous record for the deepest fish was a Mariana snailfish observed at 26,831 feet in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific on May 18, 2017.