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Missoula, Montana, USA
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I love the way it just... rises up
The highfin lizard fish Bathysaurus mollis, filmed last night at 5000m deep somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. #deeplycurious #WorldOceanDay @deepseauwa @InkfishExplore
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You might have seen a blobfish as it appears below on the right. That is actually what it looks like when it's brought to the surface from the extreme pressure in which it lives (60 to 120 times as great as at sea level). On the left, its normal appearance ow.ly/MQnj50BIVfO
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Well now, my job just got either harder or easier or impossible.
youtu.be/hVjSJV0WoDQ by @SciShow ft. @HankGreen – at Missoula, MT
I 💙 @FishBaseProject
🤔 DYK? @FishBaseProject was first started by WorldFish in collaboration w/ @FAO & partners back in 1990.
Interested to learn more about this publicly-accessible information system on #aquatic species? Join our Symposium from 5-6 Sept. 👉bit.ly/3yuIvPP
#AquaticFoods
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Before I became disabled, Bozeman FHC was pretty much my dream job. 😍
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Look at all of that reconnected habitat!
TheBarrier Removal Map is up to date now, with 6,772 total removals listed. If you know of any barrier removals executed in Europe this year, make sure to fill out our survey. Let's break the dam removal record again!
👇Survey👇
damremoval.eu/news/tell-us-a…
I've never been to @MontereyAq and I want to gooooooo! 🌊🐠🦈🐋🐙🦞🦪 – at Missoula, MT
It’s happening! Our new exhibition, “Into the Deep: Exploring Our Undiscovered Ocean” opens today! What are you most excited to deep-sea?!
📷: Paper lantern jelly, Pandea rubra—on display now!
ALT A close-up image of a deep sea paper lantern jelly. It has a dark magenta body, encased in a clear sheath, with hot pink tentacles that are trailing upwards against a deep blue-black backdrop.
Montana didn't make the list, but considering 1/3 of the list was the 5 worst, I'm okay with that.
My plate supports the @ClarkFork Coalition, which protects & restores 28,000 miles of waterways in western Montana & northern Idaho.
The best (and worst) specialty license plates for fish lovers thefisheriesblog.com/2021/11…
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From their website ClarkFork.org:
"The Clark Fork Coalition exists to ensure the people, fish, and wildlife of the Clark Fork basin have clean water and healthy rivers. It’s as simple as that."
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UH OH, the bowfishers have named me!!!🙃
*for supporting reasonable conservation measures & ending unlimited, wasteful harvest of native species! bit.ly/3yv6v2u
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A record number of manatees have died so far this year, largely in Florida's Indian River Lagoon. The culprit? A lack of food caused by a massive loss of seagrass beds npr.org/2021/06/21/100633221…
😍🥰 – at Missoula, MT
PHOTO ARK!!!
So excited to have @NatGeo conservation photographer @joelsartore add the two rarest gar species to the Photo Ark Project! #GarLab🧵
Project: nationalgeographic.org/proje…
📸@DrCBonvillain
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Woooo!! 😃
Amendment PASSED!!!!!!!
Gar status change from “rough fish” (with unlimited harvest/no protections) to “game fish” in Minnesota! house.leg.state.mn.us/Sessio…
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When I was volunteering at an aquarium, we called these guys cookies, because everyone in the ocean wants to take a bite. 😁
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