 Sea horses are related to the pipefish. This strange fish, no larger than fifteen centimeters, lives between eelgrass and seaweed, which it grips with its tail. Sea horses live mainly off of small crustaceans and fish larvae. The eggs of sea horses are carried by the males in a pouch. Sea horses live mostly in the Mediterranean Sea. There have only be a few reports of sea horses in the Wadden Sea. In May and June 2007, shrimp fishermen caught two sea horses shortly one after the other. They were delivered alive to the Nature Center on Ameland. In 1998, a fisherman from Texel caught a sea horse which was released again after a photo session with the local press. At the end of July 2000, a shrimp fishing boat from Terschelling caught a sea horse in the Wadden Sea. The catch was donated to the natural history museum on the island. In the North Sea, two to thirty sea horses are caught per year. In those cases, it is usually the common sea horse, but since 2002 the short-snouted sea horse is being caught more often as well. | 