Red cusk-eels (Genypterus chilensus), a commercially important fish highly valued in Chile, swim around a tubeworm mound near a methane seep during the Exploring Deep-Sea Methane Seeps Along the Chile Margin expedition. The importance of chemosynthetic ecosystems in sustaining their populations had not been previously observed. Image courtesy of ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute.
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