In 2015 some of the sea pens sampled were found to harbor larval redfish. Because there were also adult redfish in the shrimp survey tows, it was difficult to verify that larval fish were there because of an important biological phenomena or from spawning adults in the haul.
“I’m going to try and to enlist you to be a soldier again, protecting our environment,” Brown told the vets. “When you think about the environment, it needs protecting just like our country does.”
Scientists have reported the first dive depths for Gervais' and True's beaked whales, two of the least known beaked whale species known as mesoplodonts.