t named Jo tolo attaco it, and found still more, in particular dense sive eel-like creature, as ing shoals of grenadier fish.

    ance, tom—as many as 390 species of marine creature .

    Interestingly, many of tures o s up to a tant. types as mussels and clams, ravelers. It is no t tain organisms may drift ter until, by some unkno t t a foodopportunity and fall onto it.

    So ax to begin  uniformly bounteous. Altogetenturally productive. Most aquatic species like to be in sers ter to prime tance, constitute  of t are o about 25percent of its fish.

    Elseralia. itline and almost nine million square miles of territorial ers, it ssry, yet, as tim Flannery notes, it doesn’t even make it into topfifty among fisions. Indeed, Australia is a large net importer of seafood. tralia’s ers are, like mucralia itself, essentially desert. (Anotable exception is t Barrier Reef off Queensland,  produces little in trient-rich runoff.

    Even en extremely sensitive to disturbance. In tralia and, to a lesser extent, Nele-kno inental sible parts of giant squid, in particular te in sperm ance kno time you spray on Co reflect t you are dousing yourself in distillate of unseen sea monster.

    rouged in ime at all, fissric tons of rougs madesome alarming discoveries. Rougremely long lived and slouring. Some maybe 150 years old; any rougen may yle because ters ters, some fis once in a lifetime. Clearly tions t cannot stand a great deal of disturbance. Unfortunately, by time tock