Ateam of marine biologists has discovered 16 species of "ultra-black" fish that absorb more than 99% of the light that hits their skin, making them virtually invisible to other deep-sea fish. The ...

Some species of deep-sea fish have evolved blacker-than-black skin to protect them from being eaten – or to help them sneak up on fish they want to eat. A study, published last week in the ...

Black sea bass fishing days start at 4:30 am for Charlie Borden and his crew. (Olivia Ebertz/The Public's Radio) The Public’s Radio in Rhode Island and WBUR have a partnership in which the news ...

Sitting in his spacious office with a view of the Black Sea, Tayfun Denizer smiles: his rainbow trout, raised in submerged cages, have made him a wealthy man. Last year, the country exported more than ...

In new research published in Current Biology on Thursday, scientists looked at 16 species of deep sea animals that can absorb more than 99.5 percent of visible light directed at them, making them ...

The researchers caught three of the new fish species in the northern Gulf of Mexico at depths of 3,280 to 4,921 feet (1,000 to 1,500 meters) in what’s called the bathyal zone – nicknamed the ...

For recreational anglers such as Jeff Andres, 26, black seabass are the fallback species while bottom fishing in the winter for grouper and snapper. "When fish aren't biting you can always catch ...

Recently, scientists discovered that 16 species of deep-sea fish — some of them distantly related — camouflage with the help of skin that appears ultra-black, reflecting less than 0.5 percent ...

Rare deep-sea anglerfish spotted on ocean's surface for first time 00:44. In what may be the world's first-ever recorded sighting, a black seadevil — anglerfish known for living thousands of ...

For those fishing on a private or for-hire vessel, black sea bass may be fileted at sea but not skinned. An angler is allowed to carry no more than two filets per allowed fish off the vessel.