Research Paper On Monkfish

The deepest depths of the ocean, where life is hard and full of predators, lies the ugly ninja of the sea, the monkfish! The monkfish, a deep sea ninja, is also in grave danger. This is because monkfish are actually endangered due to over fishing. However, to learn why this dark killer is endangered, we will need to know more about mysterious fish itself. The monkfish is a type if anglerfish that lies on the sea floor. It usually has a flat body and dark skin so it can be perfectly hidden under the murky depths of water. Like its relative, the anglerfish, the monkfish has flesh sticking out of its head with a fluorescent bulb that glows which is used to lure lost fish near the monkfish to be devoured instantly by the ninja's large dagger like teeth. However the ferocious, large mouth ugly fish isn't what all monkfish are like. Only females are designed to lure prey, the males in fact are very tiny, and only have one purpose in life, to mate with a female. While the massive, ferocious female swims on the sea floor, looking for food the male would go and bite onto the female. When this happens, the male monkfish's organs and body would fuse and melt into
the female's bloodstream, leaving only the testicles stuck to the female. Usually, there are many testicles stuck to the female and when the time comes, the female will use one to impregnate herself. However, even though the monkfish is a successful hunter, being able to swallow birds whole, the monkfish endangered.
This is because of overfishing. Despite the monkfish's foul looks, it's meat is delicate and white like an angel's wings and its liver is used by the Japanese, Americans, Koreans, and French for various dishes. The monkfish is easily overfished because the larger females are edible but they take a long time to mature. In fact the female monkfish grows to adulthood at 9-11 years old only at 70 cm which means that if all these countries want to eat monkfish then they have to wait 9-11 years until the monkfish fully matured. This means because of the high demand, many monkfish do not reach adult hood to mate and reproduce causing the monkfish population to slowly shrink to
endangerment. A way to bring back this ninja of the deep, is to boycott monkfish. If you love eating fish, monkfish should not be your main fish that you eat on a daily basis. If you truly love monkfish try to eat it occasionally and don't continuously eat it every day or week. Another way to help bring the monkfish back is when you consume monkfish, don't waste the monkfish. Most restaurants only use the tail from the monkfish for consumption which is very wasteful and causes them to buy and waste more monkfish. Instead of only using the tail for consumption, use all of the monkfish such as the bones for soup, and the consume the organs as well like the liver and skin. The deep ninja of the sea, a dark killer who strikes with sharp dagger teeth, with white delicate meat of an angel's wing, the monkfish. In order to save this dark killer, one must restrain from eating its flesh. All in all, to save the dark, deep, ninja of the sea, one must not waste it and restrain from eating it too much.