Dive Into Your Imagination

Below is a photograph showing how the jack fish have separated and now converge with one another. They were just scared apart by a giant tuna. They broke apart into two separate groups and swam around their predator. Predators shake up a school's unison and rely on confusion to capture prey. At the flip of a fin, a school of fish will change directions and swim left, right, up and down, round and round.

Schooling fish often will rest under a large boat or flotsam in the water. These fish were using a coral reef pinnacle for protection. In the middle of the ocean there are sea mounts that come close to the surface. This sea mount was a little bit larger than the size of a football field and went from 40 feet under water (13 meters) to 1000 feet deep (330 meters). The schooling jacks found protection by staying together on top of the reef, hiding from animals that could sneak up on them from below!

Can you believe that when your parents grew up they did not have computers or cell phones? The internet did not exist. Technology helps make us smarter. With technology used in fishing fleets, we have created a situation that we are taking too many fish out of the ocean and not letting them repopulate. There are many marine protected areas being set aside in our ocean. Support Marine Protected Areas and eat only sustainable fish!