Like many Marine life-forms, anglerfish spend their youths as plankton-very small or even microscopic creatures that drift with the ocean currents.

和很多海洋生物一样，琵琶鱼的幼体类似浮游生物——一种随着洋流漂浮的微小生物。

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These long-lived Marine reptiles are impossible track as they drift through thousands of kilometres of ocean, spending the vast majority of their time underwater.

跟踪这些生命周期长的海洋爬行动物是不可能的，因为它们漂洋过海数千公里，绝大多数的时间生活在水下。

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One risk is that the mining operations could generate huge plumes of sediment that could drift through the sea - choking any marine life that feeds by ingesting water and filtering out its food sources.

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The tools of industrial fishing (drift nets, bottom trawls, and longlines) compensate for the diminishment of marine life that they cause by taking what little is left all the more intensively.

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