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2 unusual facts about Bluestripe Snapper


Bluestripe snapper

The species has also failed to become as a food fish and commercial resource for the islands, because of low market prices.

In the 1950s, investigators from the Hawaii's Division of Fish and Game conducted marine fauna surveys and found the Hawaiian ichthyofauna was dominated by herbivorous fishes, which they concluded were "a useless end in the food chain".


Bunaken National Park

About 90 species of fish live in the waters of the park, among them being the Emperor Angelfish, Almaco Jack, Spotted Seahorse, Bluestripe Snapper, Pinkish Basslet and Two-lined monocle bream.


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