Oceans for Dummies by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, Earth Sciences, Oceanography, Nature, Animals, Marine Life, Ecosystems & Habitats, Oceans & Seas, General
ISBN: 9781119654452
Google: TxUYEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2021-01-28T21:00:00+00:00

Photo by Tracy Candish. Public Domain 1.0

FIGURE 12-17: Mr. Mom, the jawfish, incubating the fertilized eggs.

Source: Ashlan Cousteau

FIGURE 12-18: Ashlan and a Nassau grouper.

Longest-living: The orange roughy, a brightly colored and slow moving fish, can live up to 200 years — that is, unless it’s eaten (by us). The problem with eating orange roughy is that they don’t reach sexual maturity until the age of 20, so they’re extremely susceptible to overfishing, and they’re caught using the super destructive fishing method of bottom trawling. If you need another reason not to eat them, they’re often full of heavy metals, such as mercury, because they live a long time and bio-magnify toxins into their tissue. So next time you are at a restaurant and they offer you orange roughy as a special, just say no and feel free to tell the waiter (and the chef) why. Honestly, most people, even in restaurants, don’t know how bad and destructive catching some of these fish is. A little friendly schooling goes a long way.

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