Scientists Film Deepest Fish Ever Found At 8,336 Metres In Pacific Ocean Trench

Found at a depth of 8,336 metres above seabed, a snailfish has become the deepest fish ever filmed by scientists. The young snailfish was found in the northern Pacific Ocean by scientists from the University of Western Australia and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology.

The footage of the snailfish, now the deepest fish ever filmed, was released on Sunday but was filmed last September by sea robots that were in deep trenches off Japan's coast.

University of Western Australia

Snailfish discovery breaks record

The previously known deepest snailfish was found at 7,703 metres in 2008, making this a remarkable feat.?In addition, scientists caught two snailfish at 8,022, setting another record.

University of Western Australia

Currently, scientists are filming extensively in trenches as part of a decade-long study into the deepest fish populations in the world. Most snailfish are known to live in shallow water, most many live in great depths.

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Last year, three automatic sea robots with high-resolution cameras took a dive into three trenches - the Japan, Izu-Ogasawara, and Ryukyu trenches at depths of 8,000m, 9,300m and 7,300m respectively.

"We have spent over 15 years researching these deep snailfish; there is so much more to them than simply the depth, but the maximum depth they can survive is truly astonishing," said University of Western Australia professor Alan Jamieson.

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"The real take-home message for me, is not necessarily that they are living at 8,336m but rather we have enough information on this environment to have predicted that these trenches would be where the deepest fish would be, in fact until this expedition, no one had ever seen nor collected a single fish from this entire trench," Jamieson added.

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