Large scuba tanks on the divers’ backs didn’t weigh them down as they emerged from the ocean with clear containers holding striped maroon-and-white fish. Plopping their catch onto a table lined with measurements in the center of the two-story dive boat, each one grabbed a fish by its mouth – being careful not to touch its venom-filled spines – and recorded its length.

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