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Oh wow! Bottom fish. First bottom fish.

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Of all the bottom fish that we were hoping to see, this was the primo one.

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Oh, fantastic.

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Bottom fish is a fish that’s caught with bottom fishing gear

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and the types of species that are in the bottom fish fishery can vary, but they’re all deepwater snappers and deepwater groupers,

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and they are all commercially valuable, obviously, that’s why people are trying to catch them.

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There’s one right behind me in Seirios. He’s coming around the front.

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There he goes. There he is.

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Oh. That was a grouper?

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Oh, here comes the grouper.

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This data is going to provide us with a little bit better and more precise essential fish habitat designations for the Marianas.

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This is a federal requirement of all managed fisheries that they come up with some type of description of the habitat,

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and usually that’s a depth range,but also within that depth range, there are places called habitat areas of particular concern.

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It sounds like a charm from Harry Potter.

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The Okeanos data will likely be used to review or potentially designate a habitat area of particular concern,

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which don’t exist in the Marianas because they’ve never had any data to create one.

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Each region defines habitat areas of particular concern differently.

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So, for example, there’s the discovery of nursery grounds for these fish somewhere.

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Well, nursery grounds are considered to be very, very important.

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There might be a discovery of a spawning ground, or maybe there’s an area where every single species is represented in very high abundance and it’s very unique.