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New Deep Ocean Creatures

Posted by Hemos on from the down-under-the-sea dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NORFANZ was a recent expedition that went really deep into the ocean in the search for new species that live in the largely unchartered waters of the Tasman Sea. Check out the site and some very cool pics."

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  1. Re:also of interest by Trigun · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the RedNova article on it.

  2. As fisheries are wiped out, fishermen go deeper. by Medievalist · · Score: 5, Informative


    For example, the formerly plentiful Patagonian and Antarctic Toothfishes (known in the restaurant trade as "Chilean Sea Bass" despite being amazingly ugly deep-sea dwellers) are well on their way to being fished to extinction.

    Like many large fish, they have a long reproductive cycle, and thus are easily driven to extinction by modern fishing methods. Not that the fishing industry as a whole isn't fishing pretty much everything to commercial extinction, but they can do it a lot faster to species that take a long time to become reproductive adults.