Behold, the latest in deep-sea fashion: An unfortunate fish sporting parasitic copepods as pigtails. An international team of scientists affiliated with the Schmidt Ocean Institute and the Woods ...

Norwegian company C-Feed builds world's first industrial plant for copepods – a fish-fry feed for the production of ballan wrasse, tuna, halibut and other marine species.

The video, captured at a depth of 489 meters (about 1,600 feet) near the South Sandwich Islands, shows two copepods of the species Lophoura szidati clinging to a fish of the Macrourus genus. These ...

Copepods are tiny crustaceans that live in virtually every aquatic environment on earth. Like translucent, ... So how does such an ungainly fish—and weird as they look, ...

The team's calculations show copepods use up to 39% of their kinetic energy to break through the surface tension of the water. Flying fish, by comparison, use less than 0.07%.

Whenever new fish are taken into marine aquaculture, sea lice are sure to follow. These parasitic copepods pose a major health hazard for finfish aquaculture globally, causing substantial economic ...

They suspended these fish with copepods in water loaded with hollow glass beads about one-sixth the average diameter of a human hair. They shone lasers into this water that illuminated the beads.

They suspended these fish with copepods in water loaded with hollow glass beads about one-sixth the average diameter of a human hair. They shone lasers into this water that illuminated the beads.

Zooplankton like copepods aren’t just fish food—they’re carbon-hauling powerhouses. By diving deep into the ocean each winter ...

The parasitic copepods are not merely passengers. They are mesoparasites , meaning they burrow into the muscle tissue of their host, feeding on blood and bodily fluids while their bodies hang outside.