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Angelfish We Have Held on High

December 23, 2019
An angelfish (Holacanthus bermudensis) caught during NOAA’s 2018 summer groundfish survey in the Gulf of Mexico.

Photo: Jeff Peterson

We spent the first half of this leg of the survey in the western Gulf of Mexico, going as far west as the Texas-Louisiana border. The second half we’re spending in the eastern Gulf, going as far east as Panama City.... Thanks to different submarine terrain in the northeastern Gulf—not to mention the upwelling of nutrients from the DeSoto Canyon—it’s a different marine biological world off the coast of Florida.
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