8 months ago, these rooms were empty and I didn’t know anything about fish husbandry. Today I am running experiments in the amazing Brixham Laboratory to calibrate indices of growth for juvenile sole, for my PhD. What an amazing journey, and it is just the beginning.. stay tuned !🐟

🐟Dive into #marinelife with our latest study on automatic fish event recognition #AI 🌊New dataset of 16937 fish trajectories in mating season 🔍Open access paper, code & dataset sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #coastvision #ecologicalInformatics Kim Halvorsen Tonje K. Sørdalen Ketil

Just finished entering data for 2024... this small net has now been towed for 🏆>100km 🏆by Biological and Marine Sciences staff + Marine Biology UPSU students University of Plymouth @ beaches in SW England. Bravo net & all for 7yr effort: LT data on fish habitat use, & how / why fish populations vary is valuable.

An interesting start to the first University of Plymouth #seabass expedition of September 2024! Some unexpected encounters, plenty of mud, and a bass on the first day! #FHRU

September #seabass expedition 1 day 2 was an unusual one University of Plymouth! A bumper catch of mullet on the Fowey, the return of the singular bass, and visit from a colleague Environment Agency to talk #mNCEA! #FHRU

September #seabass expedition 1 day 3 University of Plymouth! A lovely day on the Erme with many mullet (I'm starting to see a theme), gobies, a fabulous sandeel, and a whopping 4 bass! University of Plymouth #FHRU

September #seabass expedition 1 day 4 was the busiest yet University of Plymouth! 3 sites with bumper catches, plenty of mullet, sandeels, sand smelt and gobies, plus two more bass and some really funky weather 🌈#FHRU

September #seabass expedition 1 ended on a muddy note University of Plymouth! No bass, but flatfish, mullet, gobies and a cucumbery visitor! Also, there's a fish in photo 1- can you spot it? 🔍 #FHRU

September #seabass expedition 2 day 1 University of Plymouth! Tragically, no bass at Torpoint today, but plenty of mullet and sand smelt! #FHRU

September #seabass expedition 2 day 2 University of Plymouth! A long one today with some massive tides, but well worth the effort for more than a hundred bass (plus some goby ID in the dark) 🌕#FHRU

September #seabass expedition 2 day 3 University of Plymouth! The south Devon Avon finished with lots of mullet and coffee, then some exciting nets on the Erme with a good number of bass! #FHRU

September #seabass expedition 2 day 4 University of Plymouth! A slight change of cast didn't stop us having fun on the Tamar, with a bass and plenty of gobies (as requested on the drive to site) #FHRU

September #seabass expedition 2 day 5 University of Plymouth! Finishing strong (if soggy) on the Erme with another 7 bass and plenty of mullet, plus some sandeels and sand smelt! #FHRU

My second PhD field expedition was a success, with stunning sunsets, plenty of juvenile fish (although not as many sole as expected 🤔), and amazing students. Thanks to Ben Ciotti, Devon & Severn IFCA , Biological and Marine Sciences and @ARIES_DTP for their support 🐟 Now, off on holidays !

Corkwing wrasse are one of our more common and colourful species. In the breeding season males flush a bold red with bright blue facial markings. In winter their colours become more muted but large shoals of them are always lovely to see!

#FinVision Clip Of The Day! Citizen scientists are contributing to our research project by finding gems like this! Sand smelt escaping seabass predation? Want to find fish too? Check out our Zooniverse page for more! (Link in bio).

#FinVision Clip Of The Day Another tiny larval gadoid spotted by citizen scientists on our Zooniverse platform! This is exactly what the JHaM-Cam’s are looking for! Zooniverse link in bio to find more!

#FinVision Clip Of The Day! Lots of small gadoids being spotted on Zooniverse! Here’s a young pollack moving quickly within the kelp! Link in our bio to find more!

#FinVision Clip Of The Day! Huge Conger Eel spotted on the cameras in the kelp forests! The JHaM-Cam’s can spot the big stuff too! Check out our Zooniverse page to find more cool vids! (Link in bio)

🚨 EXPOSED: Unseen footage reveals the DEVASTATING impact of bottom-trawl fishing. David Attenborough’s new film #OCEAN is a call to arms to end this heartbreaking destruction of our marine protected areas. Will you heed his call? TAKE ACTION with us now👉act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-uk…