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Clusters of fish eggs recovered from a mooring line.

Clusters of fish eggs recovered from a mooring line.
Clusters of fish eggs recovered from a mooring line.
Clusters of fish eggs recovered from a mooring line.
Clusters of fish eggs recovered from a mooring line.
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Horwitz, Rachel
Clusters of fish eggs recovered from a mooring line.
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02/04/2010
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Image of The Day caption:
Look closely and you will see black and white eyes in these fish eggs. Mussels, snails, sponges, and other marine life commonly use cables and instruments left in the sea as substrates to live and grow on. In this case, the instruments that this mooring line held were placed off Martha's Vineyard to study the dynamics of the shallow inner shelf. MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Rachel Horwitz recently wrote an article on this for Oceanus magazine. The region is important to study because anything that moves between the beach and the open ocean--from animal larvae to pollutants--must pass through it.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 49, No. 1, page 43:
... clusters of fish eggs (above
right--note the black and white eyes in each) ...
Photo by Rachel Horwitz
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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