Trawling the ocean floor, scientists discover new snailfish

Snailfish can be hard to distinguish. The combed snailfish (top) is found in the Aleutian Islands and the comet snailfish (bottom) lives in the Bering Sea. (Courtesy Jay Orr/NOAA)
While trawling the floor of the Bering Sea and the Aleutian region, scientists have discovered several new species of fish — snailfish. Some were only named last year. Researchers were not looking for them, the trawl was a part of a yearly stock assessment by the federal government that helps set quotas for