The word 'pelagic' is a perfectly valid and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe any organism or feature of the sea that inhabits the pelagic zone, which is the water column away from the shore. For example, you could say "There are many pelagic creatures that inhabit the deep ocean, such as dolphins and sharks."
Instead, the growth in landings has come from aquaculture and large volumes of pelagic fish, such as the Peruvian anchoveta, that are used mostly to make meal.
The more stratified water is, the less nutrients in it move around.Most free-swimming sea creatures are pelagic.
Young polar cod (those less than a year old) are pelagic, meaning they live at or near the surface.
Andrew Bakun of the FAO speculates that there is a climatic link between the simultaneous variations in the stocks of pelagic fish seen on different sides of the world, such as pilchards off South Africa and anchoveta off Peru.American officials complain that it has been impossible to negotiate with Canada over the northward-shifting salmon.
In catching only 211 mahi-mahi for the American market, the longliners left a carnage that included 468 olive ridley turtles, 20 endangered green turtles, 408 pelagic sting rays, 413 silky sharks, 68 Pacific sailfish and a host of other species and supposedly on turtle-friendly hooks, too.
One study suggests that there are now more low-value pelagic fish precisely because large numbers of their valuable predators have been taken.
The fish swimming freely in the body of the water column, known as pelagic fish, and those near the bottom, called demersal fish, each take their share of the surface crumbs as they fall to the sea floor.
This is because the science indicates that the annual harvest of minke whales is substantially lower than the annual growth rate of pelagic and coastal minke stock.
Few of those involved like the suggestion that they ought to rein in their catches in order preserve it.Tuna is a pelagic species, which means that it lives in the open waters, far beyond the reach (and governance) of individual nations.
They are pelagic and solitary after breeding.
The two members of the family Comephoridae, called Baikal cods (Comephorus baicalensis and C. dybowskii), are pelagic fishes, the latter living at depths to 1,000 metres (more than 3,000 feet).
