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.
Yes, the blobfish is real. It might look like something out of a fantasy or horror film, but it is a real fish. Its scientific name is Psychrolutes marcidus, which means it belongs to a family of fish known as fatheads â you could say ugliness is in the blobfishâs blood.lobfish reproduction. How blobfish mate remains a mystery, as do most of the things about them. All that is known is that the female lays thousands of tiny pink eggs right on the ocean floor, and either she or her mate guard the eggs by âsittingâ on them until they hatch.