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Tiny fish living in the protection of floating sargassum.

December 15, 2014
Tiny fish living in the protection of floating sargassum. They camouflage well in the orange/brown of the sargassum.

Photo: Sarah Boehm

A Neutson net filters from the surface of the water column, and gathers drifiting planktonic organisms. Sargassum seaweed floats, sometimes in small clumps and sometimes in large mats, and serves as a refuge for many small cryptic fish species - and is commonly scooped up in the Neutson nets. Some of the common catch includes tiny fish that live in camouflage with sargassum that drifts at the surface.
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