There is always a school or two … or three of Yellowtail Scad (Trachurus novaezelandiae) cruising in and around the pylons under the old Rapid Bay Jetty. Not so common is to find them out on the adjacent seagrass beds. It must schoolies week for Yellowtail Scad. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Schoolies’, 1/160s f/8 ISO160 15mm
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Who’s following who here I wonder as this school of Zebra Fish (Girella zebra) cruise through the pylons of Rapid Bay Jetty. These fish are mostly juveniles but near the front of the school there are a few adults who seem to have things in hand leading the young ones from pylon to pylon. On […]
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Dive the shallows of the old Rapid Bay Jetty at the moment and you can expect to be stalked. This school of Zebra Fish (Girella zebra) started following me around as I searched the general area for other critters. Soon I was so caught up in their antics and carry on that they had me […]
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These yellowtail seemed so regimented into their ‘march on by’ that I could not help but imagine they had been given their marching orders. Although this looks like a night shot it was actually created in full daylight by using a combination of bright strobe lighting to ‘drown out the daylight’ and then pulling back […]
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Imagine for a moment that going to heaven for a fish might have something to do with that strange sunlit world above? Twenty years ago, ‘up there’, would have been teaming with amateur fishers angling for a piece of undersea action. From the fishes perspective the last place they might wish to go. For years […]
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