Article: UM professor discovers new fish

Erica Landau
University Wire
11-29-2007
(The Miami Hurricane) (U-WIRE) CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- When an oceanographer traveled to a coral reef atoll off of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in 2006 to study how the environment affects fish populations, he solved another scientist's 25-year-old mystery.

David Jones, a fisheries oceanographer at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies at the Rosenstiel campus, tested a new light trap he designed to catch fish returning to the reef in their larval, or juvenile, form.

With the light trap he caught a type of goby - one of the largest families of fish - that was slightly different from any published description of goby fish.

"Gobies are ...

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