At the Smithsonian in Panama, I constructed a very rudimentary light trap with some nets and my dive light in hopes of catching some larval fishes to show to the Three Seas class. Along with hundreds of thousands of copepods and other tiny creatures, we did get the odd larval fish!
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Three Seas Panama: Light trapping
Gorgeous larval fish and plankton: a sometimes unappreciated, but vital portion, of life in the ocean.
At the Smithsonian in Panama, I constructed a very rudimentary light trap with some nets and my dive light in hopes of catching some larval fishes to show to the Three Seas class. Along with hundreds of thousands of copepods and other tiny creatures, we did get the odd larval fish!
At the Smithsonian in Panama, I constructed a very rudimentary light trap with some nets and my dive light in hopes of catching some larval fishes to show to the Three Seas class. Along with hundreds of thousands of copepods and other tiny creatures, we did get the odd larval fish!
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