From the point of view of living environment, monkfish live in the ocean, so they belong to marine fish and live in the sea for a long time. Their main distribution areas are in tropical and subtropical waters, that is, in warmer waters, and some in temperate zones. Specifically, they are distributed in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. They are also widely distributed in the Yellow Sea and the South China Sea. From the depth of their distribution, monkfish belong to a kind of deep-sea fish. There are different species of anglerfish, and the distribution depth of different species is different, but mostly in the range of 50-100 meters.
The above has been introduced, monkfish is a marine fish, but also a deep-water fish, living in relatively deep sea water. In the long-term survival process, monkfish have adapted to the deep-sea environment. The deeper into the sea, the greater the pressure on the monkfish, their bodies need the same pressure as the outside world to offset each other, they can survive smoothly. Therefore, if the monkfish in the deep sea live in shallow water, the pressure will decrease sharply, so the body of the monkfish may expand, or even die. It can be seen that monkfish can not live in shallow water.
However, there are many varieties of monkfish themselves, and some of them are distributed in slightly shallower water, but overall, monkfish is still a kind of deep-sea fish, and will not be distributed in too shallow places.
