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Jeremy Barker

Giant Yellowspot Frogmouth – orange is the new green

Recently our Fish Team processed some bycatch specimens that had been sent to us by MPI Scientific Observers. In one box were not one, but four specimens of a rare species of a frogmouth fish. Not only that, the biggest one was a world record.Read more

2022-08-30
By: Andrew Stewart, Carl Struthers, Jeremy Barker and Salme Kortet
On: 30 Aug 2022
In: Behind the scenes, Science

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