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  2. Cleaner fish - Wikipedia

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    Cleaner fish. Cleaner fish are fish that show a specialist feeding strategy [ 1 ] by providing a service to other species, referred to as clients, [ 2 ] by removing dead skin, ectoparasites, and infected tissue from the surface or gill chambers. [ 2 ] This example of cleaning symbiosis represents mutualism and cooperation behaviour, [ 3 ] an ...

  3. Cleaning station - Wikipedia

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    Cleaning station. A reef manta ray at a cleaning station, maintaining a near stationary position atop a coral patch for several minutes while being cleaned. A rockmover wrasse being cleaned by Hawaiian cleaner wrasses on a reef in Hawaii. Some manini and a filefish wait their turn. A cleaning station is a location where aquatic life congregate ...

  4. Fish trap - Wikipedia

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    A fish trap is a trap used for catching fish and other aquatic animals of value. Fish traps include fishing weirs, cage traps, fish wheels and some fishing net rigs such as fyke nets. [1] The use of traps are culturally almost universal around the world and seem to have been independently invented many times. There are two main types of trap, a ...

  5. Wrasse - Wikipedia

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    See text. The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored. The family is large and diverse, with over 600 species in 81 genera, which are divided into 9 subgroups or tribes. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] They are typically small, most of them less than 20 cm (7.9 in) long, although the largest, the humphead wrasse, can ...

  6. Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps - Wikipedia

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    The Brewarrina Aboriginal fish traps is the largest system of traditional fish traps recorded in Australia. Its unusual, innovative and complex design demonstrates the development of a highly skilled fishing technique involving a thorough understanding of dry stone wall construction principles, river hydrology and fish biology.

  7. Boylston Street Fishweir - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the world, fish weirs, wooden fence-like structures built to catch fish, are used in tidal and river conditions as a passive method to trap fish during the cycle from low to high tide, or in river flow. Fish weirs built in places of large tidal change, 12 to 20 feet (3.7 to 6.1 m) between ebb and flow, are built with 4-to-6-inch ...

  8. Filter feeder - Wikipedia

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    Filter feeders can play an important role in condensing biomass and removing excess nutrients (such as nitrogen and phosphate) from the local waterbody, and are therefore considered water-cleaning ecosystem engineers. They are also important in bioaccumulation and, as a result, as indicator organisms. Filter feeders can be sessile, planktonic ...

  9. Diversity of fish - Wikipedia

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    Cleaner fish: These two small wrasses are cleaner fish, which eat parasites off other fish. Cleaning station: A reef manta ray at a cleaning station, maintaining a near stationary position atop a coral patch for several minutes while being cleaned by cleaner fishes. [97] Doctor fish: Doctor fish nibbling on the diseased skin of patients.

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