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Hundreds of fish school in an upwelling of cold water on Princes Arch Pinnacle, on the northern side of the Princes Islands. Every square millimetre of rocky reef substrate is covered with sponges and cold water corals… but what’s missing? Expedition scientists commented on the profound lack of large pelagic species such as kingfish, sharks and grouper. Were they being over-fished? Or was the environment at the Three Kings simply different? No one knows—it could be one or both of those hypotheses—and the future of an ecosystem may rest on understanding the answer.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 122 July - August 2013
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2013
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/treasure-islands/
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TREASURE ISLANDS
Hundreds of fish school in an upwelling of cold water on Princes Arch Pinnacle, on the northern side of the Princes Islands. Every square millimetre of rocky reef substrate is covered with sponges and cold water corals… but what’s missing? Expedition scientists commented on the profound lack of large pelagic species such as kingfish, sharks and grouper. Were they being over-fished? Or was the environment at the Three Kings simply different? No one knows—it could be one or both of those hypotheses—and the future of an ecosystem may rest on understanding the answer.<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 122 July - August 2013<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2013<br /> Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/treasure-islands/