#fish

[orangeblossombitch]

The kelp is blooming

[heartnosekid]

gold butterfly koi ⚱️ | source

[antiqueanimals]

Wahoo, Frank Stick. Wildlife in North Carolina. September 1981.

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[tellioari]

Seahorse! it's a curious shade of Shamrock. :3c

[geosesarma]

have you seen the thing? now you have

Opsanus tau juvenile

[kedreeva]

These little fuckers are round gobies. They are a freshwater goby that's invasive in Michigan, and they're in the nearby lake. They're distinct from the four native species due to their fused pelvic fins (middle pic) and a big black dot at the rear of their front dorsal fin. Though some other gobies have spots on their fins, NO Michigan-native species has a fused pelvic fin. These guys are very aggressive feeders and are very good at outcompeting native gobies.

They're also extremely good at stealing bait off big hooks as people on the docks reel in their lines. In particular, the bastard in the bottom photo stole my bait two days ago, so I caught him and filleted him for Bug.

Today, after acquiring smaller hooks, I went back and got 16 more, and educated several other fishers about their invasive nature. I got two turned over to me by others, and caught 14 more myself.

One man wandered over and asked why I was catching them on purpose. It was too much trouble to explain my feelings about invasive species, so I just told him, one of them stole my bait two days ago. He stopped watching my bobber and boggled at me and goes:

"You're doing this for revenge?"

So now there's some guy in town that thinks I am exacting revenge upon fish kind for a single stolen worm.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #581

Fish anatomy!

Most fish breathe with their gills, sucking water into their mouth cavity and pumping it out through the gills, where small blood vessels absorb the oxygen in the water and give up carbon dioxide. Many fish groups have also evolved to use their swim bladder or a specialised bony expansion of the gill arch (called a labyrinth organ) as a rudimentary lung. Some fish with these specialised structures are obligate air breathers that drown if they do not have access to air!

[thicc-astronaut]

I'm sick and tired of seeing deep-sea anglerfish get called "ugly" or "monstrosities" or "horrifying" like it's a fish. Get over yourselves it's a damned toothed fish not every creature in the sea is going to be some iridescent nudibranch with 27 colors that swims by following a perfect sin(x) wave with its body. Some animals are going to look a little weird by human standards because nature doesn't care about your feelings.

I think deep-sea anglerfish are beautiful actually. And not in like a poetic paradoxical "the lure has the beauty of the day but the fish itself is so horrible" I mean the whole fish. The whole damn thing. The brown wrinkled skin, the wide charismatic smile, the dark eyes twinkling like obsidian, the funny stout shape, the straight tailfin that sticks up at an angle slightly. It's a nice fish

Like heck man those parasitic males must think she's a beaut. They're willing to destroy themselves to be a part of her beauty that's how attractive she is. She's so sexy that normal sex just wouldn't cut it so they had to invent a whole new level of physical intimacy just to get jiggy with her. I bet you're jealous, aren't you?

[rebeccawangart]

"Coelacanth - Ancient Ancestor of the Deep"

Fun fact: the coelacanth is more closely related to tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles/birds, and mammals) than to other fish.

Acrylics on 11x14 inch wood panel.

[baileyfish]

I gotta use this damn website

Anyways, check this shit out

[fish-daily]

kuhli loach?

fish 185 - kuhli loach

[fatty-food]

Sushi (via Instagram)

[heartnosekid]

salmon for anon!

🐟-🌊-🐟 / 🌊-🐟-🌊 / 🐟-🌊-🐟

[antiqueanimals]

Wildlife in North Carolina. August 1964. Illustration by Duane Raver Jr.

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[thestalkerbunny]

Life and Times in a sleepy little Seaport town called New Innsmouth.

Go over to your local Sea Horse Preacher's house to see him get on his knees for the lord-if you know what I mean.

[shrimpin-aint-easy]

group activity time: searching for detritus