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November 11, 2020: Fish and Anemone

During the final dive of the Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition 2013, while exploring a landslide debris field at a depth of ~900 meters (2,953 feet) between Alvin and Nantucket Canyons off the New England coast, the team encountered this fish in the genus Cottunculus finding refuge next to a boulder covered with several flytrap anemones. The fish doesn’t look too happy, does it?

Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition 2013. Download larger version (jpg, 1.5 MB).

During the final dive of the Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition 2013, while exploring a landslide debris field at a depth of ~900 meters (2,953 feet) between Alvin and Nantucket Canyons off the New England coast, the team encountered this fish in the genus Cottunculus finding refuge next to a boulder covered with several flytrap anemones. The fish doesn’t look too happy, does it?