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“Small flatfish larvae sorted out from the trawl.”
October 28, 2013
October is National Seafood Month! Some of our seafood starts out pretty small– these tiny juvenile flatfish might grow to be larger than your dinner plate!
Photo: Britta Culbertson
When we pull in the trawl, we sort it into piles of different species and different age classes. If we get a lot of juvenile pollock (age 0), we measure and weigh 100 and freeze 25 to take back to the lab so their stomach contents can be examined. We do the same procedure for young capelin, eulachon, and flatfish. Eulachon and capelin are zooplanktivores and compete with the juvenile pollock for food. Larger eulachon and capelin are not competitors (those over 150 mm). Arrowtooth flounder and Pacific Cod are predators of the juvenile walleye pollock." - Britta CulbertsonRead the blog post
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