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Biomass of Mesopelagic Fish in the Ocean 10x Higher Initial Estimates
Until recently, scientists estimated mesopelagic fish total around 1 billion tons in the world's oceans, dominating the total biomass of fish on Earth. However, a team of researchers used acoustic observations to measure fish biomass and have concluded that their abundance could be at least 10 times higher, in a study published in Nature Communications.
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