The monitoring of mercury levels is required for a wide range of industries: 1  Foodâmercury levels in fish, vegetables, and drinking water. 2  Mining and oilâmercury is used in the extraction of gold; mercury traces are found in natural gas and oil.
The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is a deep sea fish of the family Psychrolutidae. It inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of mainland Australia and Tasmania, as well as the waters of New Zealand.Blobfish are typically shorter than 30 cm.They live at depths between 600 and 1,200 m (2,000 and 3,900 ft) where the pressure is 60 to 120 times as great as at sea level, which would likely make gas bladders inefficient for maintaining buoyancy.lobfish are often caught as bycatch in bottom trawling nets. Scientists now fear the blobfish could become an endangered species because of deep-ocean trawling.
10. Most humans will never see a blobfish because they live in such deep waters. 11. Blobfish are currently listed as an endangered species of fish. 12. When blobfish are found in fish nets cast out to catch the kinds of fish that we eat, they are often just thrown back into the sea.They are not eaten and are worth very little on the fish market. 13. If a blobfish is left out of the water for too long, their skin will dry out and they will die.2. When blobfish are found in fish nets cast out to catch the kinds of fish that we eat, they are often just thrown back into the sea. They are not eaten and are worth very little on the fish market. 13. If a blobfish is left out of the water for too long, their skin will dry out and they will die.