Underwater Photography by Jay Torborg 

"Yellowfin Goatfish"

Yellowfin Goatfish (Mulloidichthys vanicolensis) are found in slow-moving aggregations during the day, often in the same place day after day and year after year. At night, the fish go their separate ways to find their preferred food�bottom-dwelling invertebrates that they pick out of the sand.

This school was photographed under a lava ledge in about 30 feet of water off the south Kohala Coast near Puako Beach on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Photographed with a Nikon N90s in a Sea&Sea NX90 housing with two Ikelite 200 strobes. Nikon 60mm f2.8 macro lens. Fuji Provia 100F transparency film scanned with a Nikon LS-2000.

Copyright Jay Torborg  2001