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The Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery scoops up a lot of unwanted fish along with the shrimp. In the 1990s, for every pound of shrimp caught, more than 4 pounds of other fish species were caught as bycatch and discarded dead.
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Shrimp Trawls Catch More Than Shrimp

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Encrusted pumice
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Encrusted Pumice

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Arctic Tern on the Inner Farne Island.
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Arctic Tern

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A female adult anglerfish from the Linophryne family collected in the northern region of the Gulf of Mexico. © 2016 DEEPEND/ Dante Fenolio
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An adult female anglerfish from the Linophryne family

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A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will travel throughout the Gulf of Mexico and send GPS coordinates to researchers.
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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

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Bright bubblegum coral sits on a brown, hard substrate.
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Northeast Submarine Canyons

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A variety of jellyfish
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Jellyfish Diversity

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Burp Under the Ice

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Secrets of the Sediments

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a sea turtle comes up for a breath of air
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Up for a Breath

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a ripple of rust colored oil in the ocean
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Deepwater Oil

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Jeff Chanton's students collect plankton in large nets called plankton tows during the May 2012 R/V Weatherbird II Cruise in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Collecting Plankton

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