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photo by Joe Ferris
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Yesterday, since the weather has been very nice and we are ahead of schedule with our science, we stopped to fish just south of Kodiak Island, Alaska (...see if you can find that on the map!) at a place called Albatross Banks (named for the Albatross birds that fly around there). The scientists and ship's crew caught a bunch of fish! Big ones! Some 20 pounds or more. We used pretty yucky bait but it worked!! We caught cod and Halibut. Halibut is like a flounder and is pretty weird. Look at the picture below and find the eyes all on one side of its head, one right next to its mouth! It's eyes are like that because it lays on the bottom and hides in the sand, and it needs both of its eyes pointed up to see its meal when it swims by. Too bad it mistook our hook for a tasty meal... but everybody on the ship is eating fresh fish for OUR meals now. We had fish tacos and baked fish already...Mmmmmmm good!
-Bill
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| Bait is pretty gross but it works!! |
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| Halibut Head with Wierd Eyes! |
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| The Mornings Catch: Pacific Cod on the left in front and Halibut. |
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