Mar 12, 2024
Pic o' the Week: Rockfish in Coccolithophore Bloom
Image © Andrew McCurdy ” I spent a while in the shallows with these shy but curious Black Rockfish. I had to sit on the bottom and hold my breath for them to come closer and every time I breathed out they would scatter. The haze in the water is from a coccolithophore bloom, they’re tiny algae that grow calcium carbonate plates as armour. The water turns a milky teal when they bloom like this! ”…
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