Each trawl we complete, the vast majority of the animals are fishes. All shapes and sizes are represented in this group and the fish experts, Dr. Jon Moore and Dr. Tracey Sutton are kept busy identifying them while Greg Watkins-Colwell takes tissue samples of literally hundreds of fish for various projects.
Projects include collecting DNA samples for a Biorepository project, creating teaching collections of various fishes for the researchers, collecting quality specimens for museum collections, taking DNA samples for the connectivity project as well as discovering the overall fish biodiversity that is here on Bear Seamount. This location has been surveyed over the past 12 years and the data collected starts to give us a picture of the deep sea diversity found at this site.
More highlights to follow as weather allows- It's supposed to get a bit dicey as a low passes up tonight so may not have internet until sometime tomorrow. Stay tuned!
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| Fangtooth and Hatchetfish Photo: H. Judkins |
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| Deep-sea Anglerfish Photo: H. Judkins |
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| Kaup's Arrowtooth Eel (aka Slatjaw Cutthroat Eel) Photo: H. Judkins |
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