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Supermarkets & Supertrawlers
"The fish will be grazing on plankton when a supertrawler looms up in the dark. First, the thud of the propellers will be audible, then the engines, then the sonar rays, before the vast trawling nets close in. For some fish, capture in the mesh means an excruciating death: mackerel, for example, drown as they stop swimming when confined."
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New Shark
"It may have been seen thousands of times by fishermen, but this new species of shark was officially discovered by scientists only recently in Mexico's Gulf of California. The shark was found in a deep-sea fishing catch in 2003, making it the first new shark species to be identified in the gulf in over 30 years. The discovery was announced in the journal Copeia in December. The species, known as Mustelus hacat, grows up to three and a quarter feet (one meter) long and lives at depths of more than 650 feet (200 meters)."
National Geographic: New Shark Species Discovered in Mexico

Sex Lives
" For centuries scientists have thought of deep-sea pelagic fish as nomadic wanderers, in part because information about them was so limited. However, new results from the ongoing Mid-Atlantic Ridge Ecosystems program (MAR-ECO), a Sloan Foundation-sponsored component of the Census of Marine Life, have revealed that these fishes may in fact be gathering at features such as ridges or seamounts to spawn."
Deep-Spied Fish: Atlantic Expeditions Uncover Secret Sex Life of Deep-Sea Nomads

- Dave