It often happens that anchovies make a ball like in the famous song by Fabrizio De Andrè and Ivano Fossati, except that in this case they are not attacked by the albacore but by saddled breams. As you can see in the video, everything happens in a few moments and this school of anchovies tries to aggregate to escape predators, taking the shape of a large blue ball.. ...

The Pompano, Trachinotus ovatus, is a bony sea fish belonging to the Carangidae family. In the video we see a specimen trying to capture anchovies, Engraulis encrasicolus, with rapid and lightning attacks. Distribution and habitat It is widespread throughout the Mediterranean Sea and in the eastern Atlantic Ocean between the English Channel and tropical Africa. It has very rarely been found as far north as Sweden and Norway. In Italian waters it is very common. It is pelagic but typically coastal, ...

Achovy represents one of the first links in the food chain of all seas and oceans. At the base of this food chain is plankton. These are microscopic organisms distributed ...