[NatureNS] Ocean Sunfish -DFO?

Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:33:30 -0400
From: David Patriquin <patriqui@dal.ca>
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Some photos, scales/otoliths for age, tissue sample for DNA, body  
measurements,  details of time and place would do the trick I would  
think, & at much lower cost than preserving or freezing. Is there a  
DFO repository for such things?


Quoting Randy Lauff <randy.lauff@gmail.com>:

> These large fish would involve a huge amount of work to preserve and
> display, even just to preserve would be a load. I'd love to have it for
> StFX (for its bones) but at the moment, I have a tuna, large shark and
> three totes worth of fish in my freezers, all as recent additions to the
> mass of stuff already there. I'm getting a Bufflehead tomorrow...I *think*
> I can find room for that.
>
> I have to bow out of this one.
> Randy
>
> _________________________________
> RF Lauff
> Way in the boonies of
> Antigonish County, NS.
>
>
> On 3 December 2012 20:32, Elizabeth Doull <edoull@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> **
>> Saturday, Dec 1, 2012, a Big Islander found a dead Ocean Sunfish on the
>> beach.  Monday, another islander measured the fish and took some good
>> photos of it.  He was wondering if it could be preserved and displayed in
>> the Musuem of Natural History?  Dalhousie University?  St F X University?
>> Acadia University?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Liz
>>
>



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