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(Image credit: Image courtesy of R. Waller in the NE Atlantic / NOAA)
Some deep-sea fish tend to grow more slowly, live longer lives and reproduce only periodically, making their populations easier to deplete. Deep-sea dwelling Orange roughy, like these, can live for more than a century. People began fishing for them in the 1970s near New Zealand. Since then new fisheries have opened up, but catches have plummeted.
In Its Habitat
(Image credit: Image courtesy of NEW ZEEPS 2006 Expedition, NOAA/NIWA)
An orange roughy swims by marine tube worms, clam shells, and carbonate rocks at a cold seep site, where chemicals seep from the Earth's crust at the same temperature as the seawater, near New Zealand.
Roundnose Grenadier
(Image credit: NOAA)
The roundnose grenadier has large eyes and lives in the dark, cold waters of the deep seafloor. There, it feeds on fishes, small shrimp and other invertebrates.
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Wreckfish
(Image credit: Islands in the Stream 2001, NOAA/OER.)
Wreckfish weigh on average about 35 pounds (16 kilograms) and are associated with rocky bottoms of the deep sea.
Outside Its Natural Habitat
(Image credit: NOAA)
The American barrelfish, like this one, has proved eluded underwater sightings.
Lanternfish Larva
(Image credit: Islands in the Stream 2001, NOAA/OER.)
A magnified photo of a myctophid, or deep-sea lanternfish, larva.
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Wynne was a reporter at The Stamford Advocate. She has interned at Discover magazine and has freelanced for The New York Times and Scientific American's web site. She has a masters in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Utah.
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