Sablefish eats rattail

It’s a fish-eat-fish world. Our cameras captured the fateful moment that a small rattail fish was swallowed by a sable fish at our deep sea experiment at Barkley Canyon, depth 890 metres.

Find out more about this deep sea experiment to study community succession, colonization and bacterial composition on 3 kinds of organic matter: whale bone, douglas fir, and a piece of carbonate collected from a methane seep. It’s a collaboration with Dr. Craig Smith, University of Hawaii; Dr. Lisa Levin, Scripps Institute of Oceanography; and Dr. Jacopo Aguzzi, the Institute de Ciencies desl Mar in Barcelona.

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Maybe the sable fish knew that smaller fish would be curious and come to check out the experiment