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Vast fish breeding colony is more than twice the size of Paris

Roughly 60 million nests of the Jonah’s icefish cover 240 square kilometres — the largest unbroken fish breeding ground ever found.
Fish nests, filmed from 3.5 m height

The shallow nests made by the Jonah’s icefish speckle the floor of the Weddell Sea. Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute/PS124 OFOBS team

A truly massive breeding colony of fish has been discovered near Antarctica1.

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Nature 601, 301 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00065-y

References

  1. Purser, A. et al. Curr. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.022 (2022).

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