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Share They continued: The discovery of a substantial population of coelacanths through handline fishing on the steep volcanic slopes of Comoros archipelago initially provided an important source of museum specimens and was the main focus of coelacanth research for almost 40 years.    As such, the experts note their findings emphasize the importance of the Onilahy marine canyon in southwest Madagascar as an especially important habitat and provides the basis for the development of a national...

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Ghost fish: after 420 million years in the deeps, modern gillnets from shark fin trade drag coelacanths into the light by Tony Carnie on 12 May 2021 Undersea canyons off Madagascar may turn out to be the Indian Ocean epicentre for coelacanths, the remarkable “fossil fish” which re-surfaced from apparent extinction in 1938. Coelacanths have turned up with unexpected frequency in gill-nets set in deep waters to catch sharks for new, commercial markets. A worrying trend in recent coelacanth c...