| Fish are fed in this area, so shoals of angelfish, surgeonfish, damsels and sergeant majors approach divers without fear. |
| The spine on the operculum is the best way to identify an angelfish and to distinguish it from similar-looking species, such as butterfly fish. |
| Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent. |
| Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish. |
| Many male damselfish, wrasses, and angelfish, among others, maintain harems. |
| Elegant frigate birds soar high overhead, sea lions bark from their crowded rock perches, and schools of angelfish swarm beneath your bow. |
