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The most common deep sea fish is the lanternfish but others include the
flashlight fish, cookiecutter shark, bristlemouths, anglerfish, and viperfish.
Many of these fish generate their own light and can survive with little oxygen.
Endangered deep sea species
A 2006 study found five species of deep sea fish – roundnose grenadier,
onion-eye grenadier, blue hake, spiny eel and spinytail skate – to be on the
verge of extinction due to the shift of commercial fishing from continental
shelves to the slopes of the continental shelves, down to depths of 1600 meters.
The slow reproduction of these fish is one of the main reasons that they cannot
recover from the excessive fishing.
Fish caught from the rocks
Rock fishing takes you where the action is. You are not only right on top of the rocks, you are on top of the fishing. From one end of Australia to the other you can find enough species of fish while fishing the rocky shores to keep you busy for a very long time and never get bored. Everything is available to you from Bream to Barracuda. This is because the pounding waves dislodge vegetation and crustaceans that attract a wide variety of fish.
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