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Dave Murline relaxes when he is off-duty by casting his line. He caught several mahi mahi that were schooling on the port side of RV Melville. The mahi mahi were feeding on smaller flying fish, which in turn eat smaller sea creatures. All animals in the sea are part of “food chains.” Animals lower in the chains become food for animals higher in the chains. At the bottom of the food chain are ocean plants, many of them microscopic in size, that use sunlight to grow. In oceanic ecosystems, nothing is wasted.

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