Friday, March 27, 2015

Pacific-wide study reveals striped marlins' preferred habitat, may help avoid overfishing

Using the largest tagging data set to date, biologists have shown that across the Pacific Ocean the vertical habitat of striped marlin is defined by the light-penetrated, uppermost part of the ocean known as the epipelagic layer, within eight degrees Celsius of sea surface temperature.



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