Experts affirm that it is an indicator of sea warming
The marine biologist and National Geographic explorer, Manu San Félix, found, before leaving for a new scientific mission, a surprise that represents a curiosity or at least can be considered as a rarity in these waters. As he himself recounts, without hiding his surprise, in a video on social networks, found inside La Savina, the port of Formentera, a very rare fish: “We have found under our mooring at the bottom of the port a very rare fish of which there are very few records in the Mediterranean”. And he details that “it is a tropical fish that normally lives in the open seain the blue, floating, especially the fry”.
It is a Lobotes surinamensis, this case is a fry, indicated Manu San Félix. He adds that “usually appears floating together with other floating elements such as algae, sargassum and unfortunately more and more garbage”.
For this expert, the presence of this species in these waters “is a indicative of how the Mediterranean is getting hotter and hotterevidence that this past season was reflected in the water temperature, which came to exceed 31 degrees Celsius,” he points out.
The biologist reacted to the casual finding returning the fish to the open sea“since here inside the port he would die because he would not find the exit”, he affirms in his post on the networks.
This species is known as the Atlantic Sleeper and lives in warm waters found in the tropics; It can grow up to 90 centimeters long and weigh 18 kilos.. Young fish float on their sides, often alongside flotsam, and look like a dry leaf.
It is the only fish in the Lobotidae family that can be found in the Atlantic Ocean. However, it is distributed through tropical seas, especially in the Indonesian region. Young fish are often found near wrecks, beams or supports, jetties, flotsam, and sea buoys. fry they look for warm waters that exceed 29 degrees.