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LIVE UNDERWATER WEBCAM AT DEERFIELD BEACH

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  • Location: Deerfield Beach, Broward County, Florida, United States
  • Source: City of Deerfield Beach
  • Info: Live streaming underwater webcam at Deerfield beach in Florida, United States. The Deerfield Beach fish cam is located under the International Fishing Pier and allows viewswers to watch a myriad of different fish species as they swim in the ocean currents.
    Deerfield Beach City provides an excellent online fish guide to identify fish viewed on the underwater camera.

    To watch more underwater fish cams, visit: Live Underwater Webcams in Oceans




More info: The live underwater camera at Deerfield Beach is called Spinner and is located 30 feet below water on one of the pier pilings. This camera shows a huge diversity of reef fish including porkfish, snapper, lookdowns, snook, sheepshead, barracuda, triggerfish and tarpon as well as sharks and turtles. The Deerfield Beach International Fishing Pier is just under 1,000ft long and attracts thousands of fishermen and visitors each year.

The webcam has developed quite an online community which follows daily events and has even given names to some of the fishy inhabitants and visitors. One of them is King Benny the blenny whose home is inside barnacles on one of the pier legs.

Blennies are generally small fish with long bodies and relatively large eyes and mouths. Their dorsal fins are continuous and long. The blunt heads of blennies often have whisker-like structures called cirri. As generally benthic fish, blennioids spend much of their time on or near the sea floor. Blennies feed mainly on small molluscs and crustaceans. Larger fish such as striped bass, bluefish and weakfish will prey on blennies, who hide from predators within small crevices. Though they are abundant, blennies are solitary, secretive fish and are not frequently seen.

Frequently seen on the Deerfield Beach webcam, are large shoals of Lookdowns. Lookdown fish are silvery coloured flat fish with a steep sloping forehead and protruding lower jaw. The silvery colouring comes from guanine pigments which create the mirror-like body but can be altered to be highly reflective or dim, depending on what will provide the best camouflage at the time. Their body shape allows them to be quick and agile during the pursuit of prey or flight from predators.

The lookdowns common name comes from its peculiar head structure. Juvenile lookdowns have light, vertical stripes that disappear with age. These fish inhabit shallow coastal waters with hard or sandy bottoms in the Tropical Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico and is common along the Texas coast.

Additional information:
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission myfwc.com
Ultimate Guide to Fishing at Deerfield Beach Pier definitelydeerfield.com