Plenty of Fish in the #OMZ https://oceanbites.org/plenty-of-fish-in-the-omz/

Patrolling the border: #Billfish exploit the #hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest #OxygenMinimumZone https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37283143/

"#Sailfish and blue #marlins are some of the fastest fish in the ocean... how do they manage to find the sparsely dispersed #fish, #squid and #crustaceans in the ginormous #ocean? They use an invisible oceanic boundary created by a mass of water that contains almost zero #oxygen!"

If you wanted to hear my talk this morning in the Monsoon Seminar Series but could not attend - fear not, it is now on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tkOZBWNRSg

In it, I review how the modern #IndianOcean #OxygenMinimumZone came to be, what role the #monsoons played in that and how #tectonics and the glaciation of A#ntarctica factor in.