800-pound goliath grouper fish turns out to be very cute and extinction!

Have you ever saw one of the underwater sea creatures in saltwater?

The giant grouper fish definitely astounds your eyes and you may get deeply impressed. Imagine that goliath grouper fish pops out in front of you all of a sudden, and you probably be afraid of being eaten by the huge mouth of goliath grouper fish. Oh my god!

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What can you do at that moment to release your throbbing heart? And you may feel too shocked to go on underwater photography for capturing amazing moments. Luckily, you can use a new underwater drone that can fly to realize your dream in deep sea water.

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The goliath grouper fish is indeed a giant fish which lives in the Florida Keys
in the US, the Bahamas, most of the Caribbean and most of the Brazilian coast. Grouper’s body shape takes on oval with a large head and a so large mouth that you can’t believe the goliath grouper eats shark , yes, a shark one time! Hold on! It never swallow human like you, because it is actually very friendly to human and cute. Although someone may watch goliath grouper video about this jewfish goliath grouper on internet. Goliath grouper size may reach extremely large, up to 2.5 m (8.2 ft) and weigh as much as 360 kg (790 lb). What’s more, its body color can change with environmental change like chameleon. Of course, types grouper fish usually differ in colors and spots.

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Do you know what kind of underwater sea creatures does it take as food? It eats crustaceans, other fish octopodes, young , little sea turtles, and barracudas. This kind of fish likes staying quiet places and hates waves, likes warm hates cold, like clear hates turbid. At depths of 10 to 15 meters, especially in caves and coral zones, it is often seen by scuba diving lovers. Unfortunately, because of its massive gathering around born places, a large number of goliath groupers are preyed by goliath grouper fishing piscatory man illegally. According to the research report, all kinds of groupers have been continuously overfishing and many species are getting into extinction crisis. On the “red list of endangered species” of International Union for Conservation of Nature’s, there are 20 of 163 species of grouper are facing extinction, and another five are at risk.

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Can you eat goliath grouper? The answer is definitely “NO”. The US lunched protection law in 1990, and the Caribbean introduced the same law in 1993. Efforts are in place to conserve the species and it is currently illegal to harvest them. If you are eating ocean caught goliath grouper fish, $1600 per offense can be fined. Please always remember that there is no trade there is no killing. Anyone who read this article may think for a while about goliath grouper fish. Don’t you believe that this giant goliath grouper is very worthy to be loved? Let’s take action to arouse awareness of underwater sea creature protection. And now, since people armed with state of the art underwater camera like Nemo, you can learn more related information about goliath grouper fish.

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