The ocean is full of unusual animals, but few catch people off guard quite like the mola mola. It’s a massive, slow-moving disk of a fish with fins that seem placed almost at random, and it drifts ...

Fishing experts are looking for ways to fish in the mesopelagic zone, a layer of water that stretches from 200-1,000 meters (660-3,300 feet) beneath the surface, which has, thus far, remained ...

Modern kayak fishing was born on the ocean. Malibu surfer Tim Niemier developed the first sit-on-top kayak to paddle past the breakers and target fish in open water. More recently, kayak fishing ...

The open ocean’s twilight zone, a vast deep ecosystem rich in fish biomass, is poorly understood because it is expensive and challenging for humans to reach its depths 200–1000 meters (660–3,280 feet) ...

Joshua Cinner receives funding from the Australian Research Council and National Geographic Society. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the International Coral Reef ...