Twilight zone fishing: Can we fish the ocean’s mesopelagic layer?

Mongabay
May 15, 2024, 2:52 pm156 pts
Two hundred meters below the surface of the sea is a cold, faintly lit layer of water known as the mesopelagic, or twilight, zone. Here lives a menagerie of peculiar-looking creatures: blue-glowing plankton and squid; spindly fish flashing kaleidoscopes of colors, some baring rows of barbed teeth. Many of these…

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