Pacific-wide study reveals striped marlins' preferred habitat, may help avoid overfishing
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
Using the largest tagging data set to date, biologists have shown that across the Pacific Ocean the vertical habitat of striped marlin is defined by the light-penetrated, uppermost part of the ocean known as the epipelagic layer, within eight degrees Celsius of sea surface temperature.