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Description
This tiny spiny puffer fish was caught in a neuston net tow. Many juvenile fish live in clumps of sargassum weed, a type of marine algae that lives its wholelife floating at the oceans surface.
Credit
Islands in the Stream Expedition 2002. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration
Photographer
Bruce Moravchik
Location
South Atlantic Bight, Southeast United States
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
Atlantic Shelf and Slope
NOAA Affiliation
NOAA
Keywords
Ocean Exploration