UNDERAPPRECIATED SPECIES IN ECOLOGY: "UGLY FISH" IN THE NORTHWEST ATLANTIC OCEAN.

The article presents a research on the understudied species of fish in the northeast U.S. Atlantic ocean. It mentions the examination of various species of the skates, cottids, anarhichadids, lophiids, zooarcids and other similar fish to determine the changes in their abundance in the past four decades. It also discusses how the distribution and stomach contents of these species were evaluated to find out their importance and another evaluation on the evidence for its sequential depletions and ramifications.