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Friday, October 27, 2006

AMBO Students Catch a Strange One

Seatime III students caught an unusual fish in the juvenile fish survey Thursday. The fish is a juvenile Short Bigeye (Pristigenys alta). These fish normally don't stray north of 25 degrees North latitude however larvae occasionally drift into the Gulf of Maine. There are three records of Short Bigeye in Massachusetts Bay and one found off Southport, Maine. ( Collette and Klein-Macphee, Fishes of the Gulf of Maine). Our Short Bigeye has found a new home in our lobby aquarium, a more comfortable environment for a subtropical fish than the Gulf of Maine in winter.

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