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And there just aren't enough herbivores like parrotfish left out on the reefs to mow it all down.
A single parrotfish can produce over 380 kilograms of this pulverized coral each year.
Sometimes, when scuba diving, I would look up from my clipboard and just see contrails of parrotfish poop raining down.
So next time you're lounging on a tropical white-sand beach, maybe thank of parrotfish.
Mottled and striped, teal, magenta, yellow, orange, polka-dotted, parrotfish are a big part of what makes coral reefs so colorful.
And parrotfish exemplify some of the beauty of diverse reproductive strategies.
Fifth, and the most incredible, sometimes when parrotfish cozy up into a nook in the reef at night, they secrete a mucus bubble from a gland in their head that envelops their entire body.
So this is a confession of my love for parrotfish in all their flamboyant, algae-eating, sand-pooping, sex-changing glory.
Now that groupers and snappers are woefully overfished, fishermen are targeting parrotfish.
Spearfishing took out the large species, midnight blue and rainbow parrotfish are now exceedingly rare, and nets and traps are scooping up the smaller species.
Because I don't know how to give an honest talk about my beloved parrotfish and coral reefs that has a happy ending.
Most of the biomass is low on the food chain, the herbivores, the parrotfish, the surgeonfish that eat the algae.
Here are the ones that the Nautilus's nets most frequently hauled on board: rays, including spotted rays that were oval in shape and brick red in color, their bodies strewn with erratic blue speckles and identifiable by their jagged double stings, silver-backed skates, common stingrays with stippled tails, butterfly rays that looked like huge two-meter cloaks flapping at middepth, toothless guitarfish that were a type of cartilaginous fish closer to the shark, trunkfish known as dromedaries that were one and a half feet long and had humps ending in backward-curving stings, serpentine moray eels with silver tails and bluish backs plus brown pectorals trimmed in gray piping, a species of butterfish called the fiatola decked out in thin gold stripes and the three colors of the French flag, Montague blennies four decimeters long, superb jacks handsomely embellished by seven black crosswise streaks with blue and yellow fins plus gold and silver scales, snooks, standard mullet with yellow heads, parrotfish, wrasse, triggerfish, gobies, etc., plus a thousand other fish common to the oceans we had already crossed.