Sentences with word «pelagics»

Further afield, there is heart - pounding adventure diving on reefs and seamounts along the coast where masses of large pelagic fish congregate.

Every Spring and Summer, scores of large pelagic fish are drawn by the deepwater currents of the Caribbean Sea to the warmer waters near the shelf to hunt for the bevy of feeder fish.

Very often seeing big pelagic species such as manta ray, oceanic sun fish and nurse sharks.

It features modern electronics, 2 outriggers and a center rigger, which allows us to have minimum of 7 plus lines in the water at the same time all at different depths and baited for various types of pelagic big game fish.

Explore an unspoiled coastal wilderness as you search for spanish mackerel, giant trevally, queenfish and other pelagic species on this exciting tour.

Like other pelagic fishes (those that live in the open sea or in surface waters), many sharks travel far and wide.

A very good dive for pelagic life in this seamount!

Further, the decline in pelagic fish catches in Lake Tanganyika since the late 1970s has been ascribed to climate - induced increases in vertical stability of the water column, resulting in reduced availability of nutrients (O'Reilly et al., 2004).

It promises an easy dive with pelagics such as barracuda in the depths and often large animals in the shallow seagrass beds like sharks and rays.

You'll see everything from large pelagics such as Manta rays and Mola - Mola (Ocean sunfish) in season, to the tiniest juveniles and Pygmy seahorses.

Our beautiful coral reefs are teaming with life while being on the deep oceanic side unexpected encounters with bigger pelagic life are always an exciting surprise.

This gives it possibly the clearest water of many of the dive sites around Uepi — and a good chance of seeing pelagics cruise by.

Altogether, they boast of large pelagics like barracudas, trevally, and tuna.

It is good for pelagic encounters and taking wide angle photographs with a huge sand flat that is home to garden eels and yellowhead jawfish.

Cape Arago State Park: This is the best location in the Coos Bay area to ocean scope for pelagic bird species.

In a long - term field study led by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, an international team of scientists investigates the effects of ocean acidification on pelagic ecosystems in the subtropical Atlantic.

Given the lack of detailed proxy records to trace simultaneously biochemical baselines and length of food webs, assessing the extent to which biogeochemical cycling and community structure in pelagic ecosystems have changed over the past century is difficult, as is attributing change to natural cycles versus anthropogenic disturbances.

Its waters are visited by pelagic fish such as Zambezi (bull) sharks, rainbow runners, and eagle rays.

Other northern birds, such as pelagic cormorants and pigeon guillemots, overlap with additional southern species, such as Scripps's murrelets and California brown pelicans.

Highlights of this dedicated dive safari include pelagic encounters and exploratory diving at sites that have been kept a secret for generations.

By foraging for prey in deep pelagic waters often miles offshore, these mobile predators can act as vital «nutrient vectors» to shallow reefs.

There are 6 spectacular dive sites with pelagic marine life just 30 minutes away as well as many other stunning dive sites just an hour away by boat.

They find that fishing for large pelagic animals — species like tuna or swordfish — warms the climate, pound for pound, as much as raising pork.

Most days Albatross are seen flying at Taiaroa headland, with a greater opportunity from our conservation area strategic observation point to see many other pelagic sea bird species flying close, including numerous petrel and shearwater species, and up to five other Albatross species are regularly seen and identified.

From the island we can reach offshore spots where currents attract pelagic species.

[11] Female elephant seals feed mainly on pelagic organisms in the water column.

This doctoral dissertation thus aimed to assess the influence of OA on biogeochemical cycles of elements in natural pelagic food webs of several trophic levels (up to fish larvae) over extended time scales of weeks to months.

Lighthouse Reef and The Old Passage offer drift dives with many pelagic species, and a chance or manta rays.

Koh Tao offers the opportunity to see passing pelagics including whale sharks and spotted eagle rays.

The exceptions to this rule are Brissare Rock (on Mahé's north coast) and South Marianne (off Praslin Island), where strong currents mean good pelagic action in the form of abundant Napoleon wrasse, schooling gamefish, eagle rays and reef sharks.

The experienced, local dive staff will work to show divers everything from pelagics like mantas, sharks and whale sharks to tiny shrimps, nudibranchs, and ghost pipe fishes.

Join the experienced and knowledgeable crew of Jack's Diving Locker on the Manta Ray Night Dive, Manta Ray Night Snorkel, Dolphin / Whale Watch and Snorkel Cruise, Two - tank Morning Dives, Two - Tank Advanced Dives, or Pelagic Magic Night Dive.

Western gulls feed in pelagic environments and in intertidal environments.

It is speculated that these effects can control the spatiotemporal distribution of magnitude and nutritional quality of the flux of food particles to the benthic and benthic - pelagic communities at and near tall seamounts.

Meanwhile, industrial fisheries operating in tropical regions are scooping up enormous amounts of fish anchovies, herring, mackerel and other small pelagic forage fish to feed to farmed salmon or turn into animal feed or pet food, another study reported this week.

A liveaboard safari vessel is one of the best ways to explore these stunning waters, giving you access to some of the more remote atolls and the best dive sites in the Maldives and, with a little bit of luck, encounters with some of the most revered pelagic ocean creatures.

Tally for the day could be in excess of 20 new pelagic sightings for some and for most the trip will include a sought after «special» of rarity worth, that could be a Wandering Albatross or even a new species for the South African bird list.

The cooler waters found in the winter months tend to attract more pelagic animals than other months.

Further out to sea where the continental shelf drops off, the region is one of Australia's best pelagic birding sites, with an abundance of albatross across winter months, shearwaters in summer months, with petrels, gannets, skuas, terns and gulls also present.

These are pelagic thresher shark, the smallest of the thresher shark family (3m), and this is the only known place in the world where they frequent every morning.

This 12 hour, offshore, deep water, pelagic trip allows you to get out to the offshore waters beyond the reach of most day trips.

Jellyfish and pelagic tunicates live on smaller plankton and thus consume organic carbon.

Description: Gordo Banks is a seamount 5 miles offshore where pelagic marine life sightings are common.

Don't forget to look down below where the wall drops away to over forty meters, we often see sharks and other larger pelagics swimming past.

The main attractions are the superb coral formations, the big fishes action with lots of pelagic hunting around and the many species of Sharks you can encounter!

Aside from the astounding reef life, Koh Bon is one of the best places to see big pelagic creatures; both giant Mantas and Whale Sharks are local residents here.

Out from the reef in the bay is a stretch of gorgeous jagged reef wall where schools of Blue Fin Trevally, Black and Humpback Snappers, large pelagic also visits this reef, Shark, Napoleon Wrasse and swarm others reef fish.