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In collaboration with the Central Caribbean Marine Institute on Little Cayman Island, we set out to collect fresh samples of flying fish, needlefish, and halfbeaks for comparative transcriptomics and cranial morphology.
Embarking from Little Cayman to the tiny Owen Island, where needlefish were rumored to gather.
Stephen Treaster hunting for needlefish with little luck during the day.
They had much better luck catching needlefish at night.
Or when using a much larger net.
Jacob Daane plotting baiting and line strategies for catching flying fish.
Jacob Danne shows off the catch, a flying fish.
Katrin Henke and Jacob Daane documenting and dissecting the catch.