A deep-sea fish living at 8336 meters under the sea in Japan was filmed. The fish was found about 200m deeper than the previous deep-sea fish found at a depth of 8178m in the Mariana Trench. This fish has been recorded as the deepest fish ever found.
According to the British BBC and the American CBS News on the 2nd (local time), a joint Australian and Japanese research team led by Professor Alan Jamieson of the University of Western Australia in Australia found a deep-sea fish, Pseudoliparis bellebi, at a depth of 8336m in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench in southern Japan. Pseudoliparis belyaevi) captured swimming.
The previous record was a deep-sea fish found at a depth of 8178m in the Mariana Trench in 2017. This time, a deep-sea fish was caught at a depth of about 158 m.
Although the research team failed to capture this deep-sea fish, they succeeded in collecting other deep-sea specimens from a depth of 8022 m. According to reports, this is the first fish caught at this depth.
There are more than 300 species of sea bream, and they live mainly in shallow water and are easily found in rivers. Some of them, as in this study, have adapted to live in very deep trenches, Arctic or Antarctic, and cold sea water.
In order to withstand the pressure of over 800 times the sea level, this sea bream has adapted by making its body flexible like jelly. The deep sea is also the best hunting ground because there are abundant micro-crustaceans.
Professor Jamieson, who led the research, said, “I’ve been researching scorpionfish living in the deep sea for more than 15 years.”
Professor Jamieson is the founder of the Minduru-UWA (University Western Australia) Deep Sea Research Center, and has been collaborating with researchers at Tokyo Maritime University since September of last year.
Source: Donga
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