Hello!
Unfortunately we still
haven't caught any Pacific Hake or Humboldt Squid, but we have caught
many of other neat organisms in our net tows. Most of our net tows
have consisted of krill, shrimp, amphipods, chaetognaths, and larval
fish.
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| A huge amphipod we found in our net. Most of the amphipods I have seen are about the size of a grain of rice, so you can imagine my surprise when we found one this big! |
It has been really
great to see the great variety of the zooplankton out here, but a
couple nights ago, we were caught by surprise when we found that
there was a large eel-like animal in our net! Once we were able to
get it into a tub we could see that it wasn't an eel at all. It was,
in fact, a Lamprey! For those of you that don't know, lampreys are
parasitic animals that attach to other fish and suck their blood.
Even though I knew this, I thought the one we caught was kinda cute
(in an ugly kind of way).I soon named him Frank, Why Frank you ask?
Well, because he looked like a Frank of course!
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| See! He is kinda cute!! |
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| Joe successfully transferring Frank into a bucket. Look at Frank's ring of teeth! Awesome! |
Soon the name caught
on, and I started the release Frank campaign. Joe took some
convincing because he thought he would look pretty cool in a jar in
his office, but soon the decision was made that we should let him go!
I was very relieved, and I readily volunteered to release him. I am
happy to report that Frank is now happily swimming in the ocean
again!
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| I was so happy to release him back to the ocean! Nice to meet you Frank! |
Well, I better go back
to work!
-Kaylyn
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