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September 13, 2021
A school of jackknife fish (Equetus lanceolatus) as seen by the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) over the West Florida Shelf.
Photo: NOAA Fisheries
Today we made three ROV dives on the West Florida Shelf, roughly 100 miles off the west coast of Florida... The object was to conduct a fish survey with respect to species presence and abundance as a function of bottom habitat types. Essentially, we were looking for good hard-bottom fish habitats within an area being proposed to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council as a new Marine Protected Area (MPA).Read the blog post
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29 photos for Gulf of Mexico · Clear
Trawl the Livelong DayJuly 10, 2017
The Sun Sets on Another Day of the Reef Fish SurveyMay 8, 2017
Man, oh man-o-war! This Portuguese man-o-war is often called a jellyfish, but it’s actually a siphonophore, made of up of a group of colonial organisms.April 17, 2017
Hard to tell from here, but some of the plankton in this jar are really tiny larval fish– “ichthyoplankton.”February 1, 2016
A Sooty Seahare swims underwater.December 7, 2015
This is a close-up of the “cod end” of the bongo, where the plankton get funneled into.November 9, 2015
A female Magnificent Frigatebird spotted by TAS in the Gulf of Mexico.November 2, 2015
NOAA AUV deployed over the side of the Pisces for its maiden voyage as part of a reef fish surveyOctober 12, 2015
At the NOAA lab in Pascagoula, scientist Jessica Kirkham sorts through and identifies icthyoplankton (fish) and invertebrates.October 5, 2015
This Scrawled Cowfish is just one representative of an abundance of species captured during NOAA summer bottomtrawl survey in the GOMSeptember 7, 2015
This little Sargassum fish (Histrio histrio), blends right in to the seaweed for which it is named.August 3, 2015
Photophores on the Atlantic Midshipman (Porichthys plectrodon) are used to catch prey.July 13, 2015