Title: Terrifying Deep-Sea Creature Ventures into Shallow Waters
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Have you ever wondered what lurks beneath the surface of the ocean? Recently, a nightmarish deep-sea creature has been spotted in shallow waters, sending chills down the spines of onlookers.
This mysterious creature, with its razor-sharp teeth and eerie glowing eyes, has left experts baffled as to how it strayed from its dark, deep-sea habitat. Some speculate that changes in ocean currents or disruptions in its natural environment may have led to this rare sighting.
As we continue to explore the wonders of the ocean, sightings like these serve as a reminder of the vast and mysterious world that lies beneath the waves. Stay tuned for more updates on this chilling deep-sea creature and its unexpected journey into shallow waters.
In what may be the world’s first-ever recorded sighting, a black seadevil — anglerfish known for living thousands of feet beneath the ocean’s surface where the light no longer touches — was caught on camera swimming close to the ocean’s surface. The footage, captured in Spain’s Canary Islands, shows the female fish, whose Latin name translates to “black sea monster,” swimming through the light-filled ocean waters off the coast of Tenerife.
The discovery was made by NGO Condrik Tenerife and marine life photographer David Jara Boguñá while they were researching sharks. In a joint Instagram post, the organization and Boguñá said that the fish emerged from the abyss about 1.2 miles off the coast of Tenerife in Spain.
Once they got closer, they realized it was a humpback anglerfish, a type of black seadevil anglerfish similar to what was portrayed in the Disney animated movie “Finding Nemo.” The genus in its Latin name for the species, Melanocetus johnsonii, translates to “black sea monster.”
“It could be the first recorded sighting in the world of an adult black devil or abyssal anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) alive, in broad daylight and on the surface,” Boguñá and Condrik Tenerife said in their post, adding that the record to date has seemingly only included larvae or dead adults, and the only live viewings have been recorded via submarine. “… A legendary fish that few people will have had the privilege of observing alive,” the post said.
The researchers described the fish as a “true predator of the depths,” a characterization which rings true.
Black seadevils can live up to 15,000 feet under the ocean surface, with humpback anglerfish specifically known to live as deep as roughly 6,500 feet under the sea, according to the researchers. Such a depth is known as the Bathypelagic Zone, or the “midnight zone,” where animals live in constant darkness and the only light comes from bioluminescence.
Female black seadevils, such as the one that was documented, will attract prey with a fishing rod-like structure on their head that has a tip that lights up in the dark. As demonstrated in “Finding Nemo,” prey are attracted to the light, and when they get close, the anglerfish can eat them.
Female humpback anglerfish are the more powerful of the sexes in this species, growing far larger than their male counterparts. They can grow to be 7 inches and take on the more iconic look with a large head with pointed teeth and the bioluminescent lure, while the males only grow to be about an inch long and lack a lure, according to the Australian Museum.
Researchers aren’t sure why this female found her way in such light-filled and shallow waters. They said it could be due to an illness, updraft or perhaps fleeing from a predator. But what they do know is that the observation was “surprising.”
“[It] did not leave the crew indifferent and will be remembered forever,” they said.
Li Cohen is a senior social media producer at CBS News. She previously wrote for amNewYork and The Seminole Tribune. She mainly covers climate, environmental and weather news.
Video footage captured by marine biologists has revealed a rare sighting of a Black seadevil fish swimming near the ocean surface. Typically found in the lightless depths of the sea, these mysterious creatures are rarely seen by humans.
The Black seadevil fish, also known as Melanocetus johnsonii, is a deep-sea anglerfish that uses a bioluminescent lure to attract prey in the darkness of the deep ocean. Their appearance is striking, with large, sharp teeth and a dark, menacing presence.
The video shows the Black seadevil fish gracefully swimming through the water, showcasing its unique adaptations for life in the deep sea. The researchers were amazed to see this elusive creature in a more accessible environment, providing valuable insights into their behavior and habitat.
This rare sighting serves as a reminder of the incredible diversity of life that exists in the oceans, even in the most extreme and inaccessible environments. It also highlights the importance of continued research and conservation efforts to protect these fascinating and often misunderstood creatures.
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The offer was too good for the Food Bank of Central New York to pass up. A local fish farm was going out of business, and it wanted to donate more than 40,000 pounds of sushi-grade salmon.
There was one big hitch: All that free salmon was in the form of 13,312 live fish.
Like any good fish story, the saga of the salmon — from a high-end fish-farm start-up with clients like Nobu and FreshDirect to the plates of needy New Yorkers — soon swelled into an epic tale. It came to involve dozens of volunteer fish-catchers, members of the Onondaga Nation and a guy willing to donate 10,000 bags of ice.
It began with bad news: LocalCoho, a salmon farming operation that was considered exemplary because of its sustainable practices when it opened in 2017, was shutting down on Jan. 31. The company, based in Auburn, N.Y., had drawn praise for aquaculture that raised salmon in tanks on land, sparing the environment from pollutants inherent in ocean-based fish farming. But despite being well-received and seeming to have regular investment, LocalCoho struggled to make a profit, according to an article in Syracuse.com, which first reported the full story of the fish donation.
Early on Jan. 2, Meghan Durso, a manager at TDO, a Syracuse nonprofit, took a frantic phone call from LocalCoho’s owner, Andre Bravo, about what to do with all his fancy fish. He was prepared to give the salmon away, but he didn’t know where to start.
“He said, ‘Hey, we are going to throw these in the dumpster,’” Ms. Durso recalled. “And I said: ‘Hey, wait.’”
But the task facing her team was giant. They found takers for tons of live fish — including the Food Bank of Central New York and the Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance — but that was just the beginning. They would also need people to scoop each of the thousands of salmon from their tanks in Auburn, people to ship them on ice to a processor and people to turn the fish into fillets. And they had only days to do it before LocalCoho closed for good.
Calls and emails to Mr. Bravo from The Times were not returned. Reached by phone, Adam Kramarsyck, a manager for LocalCoho, said he was not permitted by the company to comment.
Then the iceman came: Shawn Salle, the operations manager of Brown Carbonic, a Syracuse business that runs the Ice Company of Elmira, answered the call. His grandparents, who founded the company, long supported the food bank, Mr. Salle said, so his response was easy: Where should he send his freezer trucks?
Ultimately Mr. Salle supplied five employees, two trucks and 10,000 pounds of ice to the project, at no charge. “It really wasn’t a question of if we will,” he said. “It was, How can we help and what do you need?”
Back at the Central New York Food Bank, Andrew Katzer, the director of procurement, was also busy working the phones. He was delighted to take the fish, but he would need to find a company that could clean, gut and debone more than 20 tons of salmon. There was also the matter of drumming up volunteers. Ultimately 42 helpers would spend the week in LocalCoho’s tanks, wearing rubber waders and netting the fish, placing them in ice baths and loading the cold, slippery creatures into the refrigerated trucks.
Mr. Katzer was right there with the volunteers in the tanks. “The fish, they often don’t want to be caught,” he said. “You get very wet.”
JD & Sons Seafood, a Rochester wholesaler, offered to fillet the fish at a steep discount, Mr. Katzer said. The last of the fish left for Rochester on Wednesday; the next step will be distributing the fillets to the food bank’s partner organizations — more than 300 across 11 New York counties. The total operation has cost about $30,000, according to the bank. Until recently, Local Coho salmon went for $17.99 a pound on the Fresh Direct website, making the approximate market value of the donation more than $700,000.
About 250 salmon were picked up by members of the Onondaga Nation, who filled two pickup trucks with coolers to take to their land, on a day so cold the fish stayed frozen solid, said Curtis Waterman, a member of the Beaver Clan who works as ahunter-gatherer fisherman for the Onondaga Nation Farm, about 20 miles south of Syracuse.
There, before filleting the salmon, Mr. Waterman and his colleagues gave the animals a traditional thank you for their sacrifice in the Onondaga language, he said. Then the fish was flavored in a slightly less traditional manner, with teriyaki, brown sugar, salt and pepper, and then smoked, before the about 9,000 servings of salmon were packaged to be given away to the nation.
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An escalating marine heatwave has been identified as the likely cause of more than 30,000 fish washing up dead in the Pilbara earlier this month.
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development has said the incident at Gnoorea Beach near Dampier but it was “likely that prolonged thermal stress” due to these conditions was associated with the deaths.
Executive Director, Fisheries and Agriculture Resource Management Nathan Harrison said marine heatwaves could last from days to months and have wide-reaching impacts on habitats, plankton, fish and fisheries.
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And a warmer ocean off WA during 2024 preconditioned a high marine heatwave risk scenario for the summer months.
The nearshore waters along the Pilbara coast were currently around 31 degrees, 2-3 degrees above normal for this time of year.
It follows WAtoday reporting just before Christmas on coral bleaching at two reefs near Broome amid spiking ocean temperatures.
The Conservation Council of WA has linked WA’s fossil fuel expansion and increasing carbon emissions to the climate crisis, particularly the recent approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas plant to operate until 2070, and the company’s application to drill for gas near the Scott Reef, a haven for endangered marine life, as part of the same operation.
They have called for the WA government to phase out fossil fuels and pass laws to limit pollution.
Environs Kimberley Executive Director Martin Pritchard said 70-90 per cent of corals were predicted to die worldwide even under conservative predicted climate trajectories, that is, warming of 1.5C.
He said the organisation was concerned about the state government’s lack of “any action or response” to the recent marine heatwave, coral bleaching and fish kill.
“We need the state Environment Minister Reece Whitby to take action here so we actually understand the damage to Kimberley marine life so far,” he said.
“Then he can tell us how the WA government will make sure it doesn’t get worse.”
The minister was contacted for comment.
WA experienced one of the worst marine heatwaves on record in 2010/11, which caused major losses of seagrass and kelp, and impacts on fisheries such as Roe’s Abalone and Gascoyne saucer scallops.
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