Pterois miles - DawnBailey - 2021-03-30

Scientific Name:

Pterois miles

Common Name:

Devil firefish

Taxonomic Group:

Fishes

Reported by:

DawnBailey

Report Date

30.03.2021

Report Status

Published

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Information

Latitude

34.986144001848

Longitude

34.0768156064

City

-

MPA

No MPA

Upper Depth

8.00

Lower Depth

22.00

Abundance by Depth

Most were a little deeper than usual, possibly due to recent windy weather and rough sea.
Those seen today were between 5cm - 30cm size
Lots of juveniles
One juvenile spotted sharing its home with a moray

Density Measure

No. of Individuals Sighted

33.00

Habitat

Infrastructure

Others

Benthic Sediment

Rocky

Ecosystem

Hard substratum

Comment

User: DawnBailey [221] - Date: 2021-03-30 17:35:56:
Dive Time 75 minutes
Water temperature 17C - 19C
2 divers, Nitrox 32%, Max Depth 23m
Most were a little deeper than usual, possibly due to recent windy weather and rough sea.
Those seen today were between 5cm - 30cm size
Lots of juveniles
One juvenile spotted sharing its home with a moray
Needs to be cleared by the RelionMed RATS teams very soon