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Pelagic fish live in the pelagic zone of ocean or lake waters—being neither close to the bottom nor near the shore—in contrast with demersal fish that...

extend far below the epipelagic zone, and support very different types of pelagic fishes adapted to living in these deeper zones. In deep water, marine snow...

areasPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Pelagic fish – Fish in the pelagic zone of ocean waters Whitefish – Several species of demersal...

Forage fish, also called prey fish or bait fish, are small pelagic fish that feed on plankton and other tiny organisms. They are preyed on by larger predators...

which creates an interesting paradox due to it hosting a variety of large pelagic fish populations and apex predators. These mesoscale eddies have shown...

around the Galapagos Islands and the Seychelles Islands, which have major pelagic fisheries. Upwelling could occur anywhere as long as there is an adequate...

(660 ft) deep, it follows that pelagic coastal fish are generally epipelagic fish, inhabiting the sunlit epipelagic zone. Coastal fish can be contrasted...

200-nautical-mile (370-kilometre) exclusive economic zones and in the high seas outside these zones. They are pelagic species, which means they mostly live in the...

marine fish species of the cod genus Gadus and family Gadidae. It is a semi-pelagic schooling fish widely distributed in the North Pacific, with largest concentrations...

lateral canals in the Gila River region. In the Colorado River mullet are pelagic in larger pools, sometimes moving into currents below dams, and generally...

eggs, drifting in the water. This established that fish eggs could be pelagic, living in the open water column like other plankton. Around the beginning...

Bulletin, 66: 13–29. Kingsford MJ (1993) "Biotic and abiotic structure in the pelagic environment: Importance to small fishes" Bulletin of Marine Science, 53(2):393-415...

⁠ T. draco is an oviparous spawning fish that lays its eggs into the pelagic zone. ⁠The larvae have a size of about 4.8 mm to 6.8 mm ⁠ and hatch after...

jpg - Wikipedia.” Commons.wikimedia.org, 14 Jan. 2007, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sandbar_shark_seaworld.jpg. Accessed 3 Mar. 2024. ‌ Romine, J.G., Musick...

partially enclosed by it. In oceanography, the term is synonymous with pelagic zone and is often defined as all oceanic waters seaward of any continental...

healthy communities of reef fish there are significant populations of pelagic fish such as manta rays (Manta birostris), whale sharks, other sharks,...

Seaway area of North America. It preferred mainly subtropical to temperate pelagic environments but was known in waters as cold as 5 °C (41 °F). Cretoxyrhina...

worldwide, ranging from shallow intertidal zones to depths of more than 8,300 m (27,200 ft) in the hadal zone. This is a wider depth range than any other...

sometimes immense gatherings fuel the ocean food web. Most forage fish are pelagic fish, which means they form their schools in open water, and not on or...

their expulsion has been described as ethnic cleansing. In a cable leaked by WikiLeaks, a US State Department official commented based on talks with British...