The short and striking video of hundreds of fish jumping in and out of the water captured at a very close range was posted by YouTube user PitBenKDH who writes: This HUGE school of Jumping Mullet ...

One other thing that makes it complicated is that we have another fish here that has several names as a mullet. You have the Mugil cephalus (or jumping mullet) which is a totally different genus ...

There are theories, however. Fatzinger said that if you see a single mullet jump, It could be caused by a parasite. The fish is trying to knock it off. Parasites are common on all kinds of fish.

One scientific paper done on the mullet points to mullet jumping to seek more oxygen. Whatever the reason these fish will jump as high as three feet and then fall back into the water on their sides.

A school of mullet fish in Florida must have thought they were ... which was accentuated by the trademark jumping of the mullets. “Seeing them jump and start to glow again as they hit the ...

Since mullet jump all up the Pascagoula River during their ... It’s not a high-priority fish for researchers. There are just so many other projects for study, he said, and there’s not a ...

The murky water from hurricanes and annual mullet migration might be to blame ... “I would not go into the water if you see any fish jumping out of the water, ever, because fish don’t fly.

The lone net camp off the coast of Cortez harkens to a time not so long ago, and a way of life that still lives on. The historic fishing village of Cortez was established in the 1880s and quickly ...