Scientists discover 30 new species in Galapagos depths:
An international team of marine scientists have discovered 30 new species of invertebrates in deep water surrounding the Galapagos, the Ecuadoran archipelago's national park authorities announced Monday.
[...] Scientists from the CDF [Charles Darwin Foundation], in collaboration with the National Park Directorate and the Ocean Exploration Trust, probed deep-sea ecosystems at depths of up to 3,400 meters using state-of-the-art Remote Operated Vehicles (ROVs).
The two ROVs, Argus and Hercules, were operated from the 64-meter exploration vessel Nautilus, which carried out the deep-sea probe in 2015.
How many more undiscovered species wait in the deep?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @05:40AM (3 children)
Efforts to preserve the other 1 are being considered.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @05:43AM (2 children)
That was my question: which ones taste like chicken?
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday August 20 2020, @01:23PM (1 child)
Are they not all chicken-of-the-sea flavored? That said if they mostly live around 3400 meters down I guess they are safe from human fishing for the most part, submarine fishing just wont be economically viable.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday August 20 2020, @06:21PM
Not necessarily...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/jan/05/biodiversity.fishing [theguardian.com]
"The scientists reviewed trawler logs for records of five deep sea by-catch species ... They found that levels of all the fish plummeted by 87%-98% over the 17 years, a rate that will see a decline over the next three generations of 99%-100%."
The fish in this article are about 1,500 m deep. Not sure what "up to 3,400 metres depth" really means.