Scientists in disbelief over discovery of world's largest fish-breeding area - CNET

Researchers estimate 60 million icefish are hanging out in one ocean region of Antarctica.

Icefish attend to nests in the Weddell Sea as part of a massive breeding colony.

A team aboard the research vessel Polarstern found the mind-bogglingly massive icefish breeding colony while surveying the seabed with a camera system in February 2021. .

"The idea that such a huge breeding area of icefish in the Weddell Sea was previously undiscovered is totally fascinating," said AWI biologist Autun Purser, lead author of the study.