Oyster farmers find northernmost blue angelfish ever reported off the coast of Cape Cod

Oyster farmers find northernmost blue angelfish ever reported off the coast of Cape Cod

Source: boston

10/2/2024

Credit: Leah Myrbeck, Wild Care, Inc

Cape Cod husband and wife oyster farmers were flipping bags on their oyster grant in Little Pleasant Bay in Orleans last week when a colorful little fish caught their eye.

When Tim Silva was working on flipping the 5,000 floating bags of oysters on Wednesday to help clear them of debris and establish the oyster shapes, he noticed a blue.

“Not a normal blue,” Silva said. “It was moving, and it was fish that was not supposed to be there.”

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