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Researchers aboard German research icebreaker Polarstern in February 2021 made an unexpected discovery: the world’s largest icefish nesting ...
Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world’s largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system photographed and filmed thousands of nests of icefish of the species Neopagetopsis ionah on the seabed. The density of the nests and the size of the entire breeding area suggest a total number of about 60 million icefish breeding at the time of observation. These findings provide support for the establishment of a Marine Protected Area in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. A team led by Autun Purser from the Alfre...
Afternoon Drive host John Maytham chats to marine predator ecologist Mia Wege.