World's rarest fish doubles known as new population discovered off Tasmanian coast

A team of divers from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and the citizen science project Reef Life Survey (RLS)  has discovered around 20-40 individuals of red handfish, believed to be the world's rarest fish, off the Australian coast. until the discovery, only 1 other population with an equivalent range of fish had been known nearby. because the fish walk on the seafloor rather than swimming, every site's space was restricted to fifty meters by twenty meters.readmore@UTAS