Photo of the Week

We are excited to bring back our Photo of the Week section so stay tuned for new content coming soon! In the meantime, take a look at these fantastic pictures from our teachers.

In celebration of March Madness, here’s a basketball… -shaped fish! Go Lumpsuckers!

March 18, 2019
TAS ’16 Virginia Warren shows off a smooth lumpsucker collected during a mid-water trawl survey.

Photo: Virginia Warren

Once the pollock come through the shoot and onto the conveyor belt, the first thing that we do is pick out every type of animal that is not a pollock. So far we have found lots of eulachons (Thaleichthys pacificus), jellyfish (Cnidaria), isopods, and squid. We have even found the occasional chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), rock fish (Sebastes spp.), and a lumpsucker (Cyclopteridea).
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