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About a 300 foot long gill net found abandoned on a shallow reef in the surf zone on Oahu, Hawaii. The net had trapped parrotfish, wrasses, goatfish, surgeonfish, coral crabs, spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and other fish that had decayed beyond identifi
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Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

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Hundreds of birds congregate around the trawl fishing vessel. The orange "bird scaring lines" keep the birds from flying into the trawl cables where they can accidentally get caught and die.
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Bird scaring lines

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Ghost shark swimming
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Ghost Shark

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A crab with blue coloration
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Toxic!

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A crab sits on a coral with a sponge covering its head
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A Sponge Crab's Updo

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Diagram showing gills on a crab absorbing nutrients
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Crab Gills Absorb Nutrients

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A crab with numerous
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Decorator Crab

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A Pholas dactylus clam illustration.
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The Borer of Holes

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A shimmering bobtail squid.
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Bobtail Squid Shimmers

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Turbinolia stephensoni
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Smallest Coral Species

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Photograph of the underside of a gelatinous octopus with a bright yellow bioluminescent ring around her mouth.
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Bioluminescent Octopod

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A bluefin trevally swims in Hawaii’s Maro Coral Reef, part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
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Hawaii’s Maro Coral Reef

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