Luminescent Sea Salps

These salps were filmed in Gloucester’s inner harbor and had a luminous appearance in the blue lights of the fishing boat Hot Tuna, the largest boat in the Wicked Tuna fleet. I think the song “La Luna” by Lucy Schwartz adds to the magical movement of the salps and other creatures in the glowing blue. Sea salps are warm ocean water creatures, exploding in population during algae blooms. With a beating heart, notochcord, and gills they are more closely evolutionarily linked to humans than to jellyfish. Sea