AnswersDrivePelagic fish live in the water column of coastal, ocean, and lake waters, but not on or near the bottom of the sea or the lake. They can be contrasted with demersal fish, which live on or near the bottom, and coral reef fish.
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What is a pelagic trawler?
A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls. Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively dragging or pulling a trawl through the water behind one or more trawlers.
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Is herring pelagic?
Pelagic. Most of the world's large fish populations are pelagic. They include the highly migratory species of tuna, herring (Clupea harengus) and mackerel (Scomber scombrus), and smaller species such sardines and anchovy. The main characteristic of these pelagic fish populations is that they are mobile or migratory.
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What is the meaning of pelagic fish?
Pelagic fish live in the pelagic zone of ocean or lake waters – being neither close to the bottom nor near the shore – in contrast with demersal fish, which do live on or near the bottom, and reef fish, which are associated with coral reefs.
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What types of plants live in the pelagic zone?
Pelagic Plants The primary plant in the pelagic zone is phytoplankton, a microalgae, fuelled by photosynthesis. Other plant types are: Diatoms, single-celled phytoplankton. Dinoflagellates, microscopic, single-celled algae.
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What is a pelagic bird?
Type of: sea bird, seabird, seafowl. a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc. Other unusual sightings were pelagic birds such as jaegers, shearwaters and petrels.
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Is a tuna a pelagic fish?
Oceanic pelagic fish typically inhabit waters below the continental shelf. Examples include larger fish such as swordfish, tuna, mackerel, and even sharks.
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Are sharks pelagic fish?
Pelagic or oceanic sharks live in the open waters of seas and oceans. They inhabit tropical and temperate waters, and many are migratory. However, there are also three species of large plankton eating filter feeders – the whale shark, the basking shark and the megamouth shark.
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What is the difference between the benthic and pelagic zone?
As you see from the diagram,Benthic zone is part of Ocean layer which describes the layers closer to the bottom of the water body, and Pelagic zone is layer which includes the free water column that interacts with the surface layers of a water body.
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What is a zooplankton and phytoplankton?
The most obvious difference between them is that zooplankton is an animal while phytoplankton is actually a plant. Diatoms and algae are two forms of phytoplankton that are commonly seen. Tiny fish or crustaceans like krill are examples of zooplankton.
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Which animal is the only herbivorous marine mammal?
Marine herbivores are found within four groups of species in the animal kingdom -- invertebrates, fish, reptiles and mammals -- and include zooplankton, mollusks, the green sea turtle, the marine iguana and some fish species. Manatees and dugongs are the only herbivores among marine mammals.
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What animals live in the abyssal zone of the ocean?
The answer is yes. Animals in this zone include anglerfish, deep sea jellyfish, deep sea shrimp, cookiecutter shark, tripod fish, and abyssal octopus also known as the dumbo octopus. The animals that live in this zone will eat anything since food is very scarce this deep down in the ocean.
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What is a pelagic sediment?
Pelagic sediment or pelagite is a fine-grained sediment that accumulates as the result of the settling of particles to the floor of the open ocean, far from land.
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What is the definition of abyssal zone?
The abyssal zone or abyssopelagic zone is a layer of the pelagic zone of the ocean. "Abyss" derives from the Greek word ?βυσσος, meaning bottomless. At depths of 4,000 to 6,000 metres (13,000 to 20,000 ft), this zone remains in perpetual darkness.
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What is Epipelagic?
Definition of epipelagic. : of, relating to, or constituting the part of the oceanic zone into which enough light penetrates for photosynthesis.
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What is the neritic zone of the ocean?
Sargassum seaweed drifting in the neritic zone provides food and shelter for small epipelagic fish. The neritic zone is the relatively shallow part of the ocean above the drop-off of the continental shelf, approximately 200 meters (660 ft) in depth.
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Are salmon pelagic fish?
Colonising 'new' rivers from the ocean, where the adult salmon is a top pelagic predator, demonstrates that the Atlantic salmon is during its marine phase a species of sea fish competing with and predating on other pelagic species, such as herring, mackerel and blue whiting.
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What is the photic zone of the ocean?
Photic zone, surface layer of the ocean that receives sunlight. The uppermost 80 m (260 feet) or more of the ocean, which is sufficiently illuminated to permit photosynthesis by phytoplankton and plants, is called the euphotic zone.
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Where is the location of the neritic zone?
neritic zone(neritic province) The shallow-water, or near-shore, marine zone extending from the low-tide level to a depth of 200 m. This zone covers about 8 per cent of the total ocean floor and is the area most populated by benthic organisms (see benthos), owing to the penetration of sunlight to these shallow depths.
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What are the three main zones of the open ocean?
The pelagic region is divided into three zones. The top zone is the euphotic or sunlit zone. This is the ocean zone that sunlight penetrates. Because this zone gets sunlight, photosynthesis can occur and plants can grow here.
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What animals live in the Epipelagic zone?
Animals: Examples of euphotic zone animals include most ocean fish (including sharks and rays), man-o'-war, jellyfish, sea turtles, seals, coral, and zooplankton. Some bottom-dwellers live in the euphotic zone - this zone is defined in terms of light, not depth.