Teamwork

Pyrosomes are not always alone rather they live with the help of teamwork most of the times. The zooids live on plankton, their food. The plankton once get inside this tube, before they could make its way out of the tube, the filtered liquid is pushed back. As all the zooids work together, they are able to feed themselves and survive.

Their Population Rises

You’ll be surprised to know that pyrosomes are not so rare after all. In recent years, their population has increased at a faster pace. They have started adapting the colder area for their living and that’s how they have expanded to the Pacific ocean and the west coast of the U.S. Their increased population has taken them all the way to Alaska a place where they were never seen before but these days.

They Can Form Clusters

Not only the zooids get together to form a pyrosome, but they can also further form a super-pyrosome-cluster. This is one quality that has been increasing problems for the fishermen. They get along in the form of a huge group where dozens of pyrosomes are attached per square meters. This formation allows them to travel much farther and can cover a much bigger volume of the ocean.

Messing Up With Fishermen

In 2017, after several types of research, the main cause of the financial crisis of the “Pacific Northwest Fishing Industry” was concluded to be the increasing population of the pyrosomes. Most of the times, the fishermen get pyrosomes in their net and it consumes most of their time to detach them from the fishing net. But Andrew observed something about his encounter which was worth sharing.

Why Unique?

“Occasionally they are caught in nets but not many intact large specimens have been caught to my knowledge,” told Andrew. They stayed in the water for over an hour and the giant pyrosome wasn’t in the mood of letting them go.

Getting To The Surface

Therefore, Andrew and Steve decided to head towards the surface and it was time to leave the friendly peaceful giant behind and get back to their normal lives. But that was not going to happen as the pyrosome wasn’t that easy going to say goodbye.