#CHILEAN FISH !!!!

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please click for better quality oh my god

fishe fishe fishe fishe

alt version lol:

[paninityl]

pressure sebastian solace posting

[borksoda]

I saw a vid before this saying goldfish was rebranding and starting tweakin, I *love* gold fish. I'm so thankful it's only for a week I was truthfully gonna cry 😔😔

"Chilean sea bass"?? Idc if they look the same, they are called goldfish for a reason. they are gold fishie crackers and are the snack that smiles back >:(

[laventureantarctique]

Pebre This version of the Chilean salsa pepre uses a rehydrated aji pepper. The salsa tastes great served with bread or alongside eggs, meats, fish, or cheese.

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[xtruss]

A Mountain Lion leaps across a forest stream. These animals avoid water at times, but can also swim long distances in certain circumstances. Photograph By Jim and Jamie Dutcher, National Geographic Image Collection

To Reach An Uninhabited Island, This Mountain Lion Did ‘Something Totally Unexpected’

These cats can swim long distances and hop between Islands more commonly that we thought, which has big implications for their conservation.

— By Douglas Main | February 24, 2023

Mountain lions are not commonly thought of as animals that swim well—or are even capable of swimming long distances. But at least for one adventurous cat, that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

A new study recorded a young male cougar paddling two-thirds of a mile from the mainland of Washington State to an uninhabited island in Puget Sound. The GPS-collared feline known as M161, or Nolan, took a winding path through the outskirts of Olympia, and along the coast, before taking to the sea.

That got researchers wondering how many islands might be habitable by mountain lions. If the animals can regularly swim this far, then they can likely inhabit more than half of the area’s 6,513 islands, scientists determined.

They also combed through historical records and found evidence of mountain lions inhabiting an additional four islands outside of the range of this youngster’s swim, all of over a mile from shore or the nearest island. This suggests the animals can swim even farther at times, perhaps close to a mile and a quarter. Young male mountain lions often undertake difficult and long journeys in search of new territory, as was the case for Nolan.

“We are redefining the mountain lion in our minds as an animal that can swim and is willing to swim,” says study co-author Mark Elbroch, who leads the puma program for Panthera, the global wildcat conservation organization. The paper was published in the Journal Northwestern Naturalist.

The findings were made as part of the Olympic Cougar Project, a broad coalition of researchers, Native American tribes, land trusts, and others committed to mountain lion conservation and research, as well as identifying and protecting wildlife corridors.

Interstate 5, a busy thoroughfare that runs south from Seattle to Portland, Oregon, is cutting off access for the state’s cougars and many other species to the Olympic Peninsula, a wide expanse of forested habitat that’s surrounded on three sides by water.

“I-5 is killing us,” Elbroch says. “It’s killing the peninsula—we need to address this immediately.” There are two spots where wildlife passages could be built, but time is running out to protect these corridors as development and sprawl continue, he says.

Nolan, who scientists tagged along with his mother in January 2020, set out on his own in April of that year. He bounced around a bit, finding his way into several towns north of Olympia. Researchers feared he might get himself into trouble, as such young and still-unexperienced cats “are trying to safely navigate a landscape without knowing what’s around the corner,” Elbroch says.

Then, between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. on July 14, he took a swim to Squaxin Island, an uninhabited parcel of land in Puget Sound owned by the Squaxin Island Tribe. Sadly, Nolan was shot two weeks later during a legal hunt.

A swimming Cougar (Felis Concolor) in British Columbia. Mountain lions may be able to swim a mile or more in certain circumstances. Photograph By Tim Melling

For this reason, islanders in cougar habitat shouldn’t leave livestock unattended, says Rich Beausoleil, a biologist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The findings were “not terribly surprising to me, but still very interesting and important… We shouldn’t always see water as a barrier to movement to any large carnivore,” Beausoleil says.

Taking to the Water

Mountain lions, which have the biggest range of any Wildcat, from Canada to Chile, regularly cross small and moderate-size rivers.

In Brazil’s Pantanal, where they’re called pumas, the cats also regularly swim in the vast wetland during the wet season. In 2010, Elbroch and colleagues documented a tagged puma repeatedly swimming across a large lake in Chilean Patagonia to eat domestic sheep on an island, swimming as far as 0.6 miles at a time.

As for swimming, “they probably don’t mind it as much as we think they do,” says Dave Onorato, a researcher with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission who wasn’t involved in this study.

Even still, for decades, Florida panthers—federally recognized as a subspecies of mountain lion—were rarely seen North of the Caloosahatchee, a waterway stretching from Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf Coast once considered a potential barrier to dispersal. But in 2016, a female was spotted north of the river from the first time in generations, suggesting she swam across the waterway, in a bit of good news for the panther.

Amazing Adaptability

Since mountain lion numbers are much lower than they once were, and the animals avoid people, behaviors such as swimming remain underappreciated and anecdotal, experts say.

National Geographic Explorer Audra Huffmeyer, who studies Cougars in the Los Angeles area and beyond, agrees. While she wasn’t surprised that cougars can island-hop in the Salish Sea, “the distances covered are pretty incredible… the capacity of large felids to adapt to extreme habitats is pretty amazing.”

Nolan’s journey and all the data produced by Olympic Cougar Project will help land managers understand where mountain lions travel, and help identify corridors that need to be protected, says Jim Williams, a cougar biologist at the Heart of the Rockies Initiative, a conservation group.

The Olympic Peninsula certainly needs such guidance and protection, as its cougars have the lowest genetic diversity of any in the state, records show. The cats are also an umbrella species, and protecting these animals could help other animals they share the landscape with, Williams adds.

To Elbroch, Nolan’s journey represents “the ingenuity of nature—finding a way around an insurmountable obstacle.”

[council-of-beetroot]

Keeping a list of Mikus I've seen

Afghani Miku

Aboriginal Miku

Floridian Miku with Fish

Floridian Miku

Black American Miku

Ukrainian Miku

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Ukrainian Donetsk Miku

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Podlasie Miku my region

Zakopane Miku

Poland And Czechia are Gay For each other

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[fuckingconversations]

For real tho, Chilean sea bass isn’t even a bass OR from Chile.

It was a no-taste, undesirable off-catch called called Patagonian Toothfish, until someone rebranded and marketed it in 1977 to chefs as a fish that you could do anything with because it had no flavor of its own. And it worked. And now Chilean Seabass (aka the Toothfish) is overfished and overpriced.

The Toothfish is slow to reproduce, and normally lived a very long time in the deep sea. So, it’s sensitive to fishing pressure wiping out the breeding adults. Thanks to “Chilean seabass” hype, the Patagonian Toothfish went from normal populations to legally protected due to dangerously low population levels… in 45 years.

Additionally, Snow Crabs are experiencing a population collapse - Alaska’s snow crab population dropped from 8 billion in 2018 to 1 billion today. It had 87% population loss in under 5 years. The 2022 Bering Sea snow crab harvest was cancelled for the first time in history because of worries that further fishing could wipe out the population entirely.

International surveys of Bluefin Tuna populations found that they had also dropped by 87% compared to 70 years ago.

According to NOAA, many North American ground fish like Atlantic Cod are now protected, with reduced fishing and fishers have restricted access to certain habitats, due to significant population loss.

The international Union for conservation of nature lists over 15,000 species of living fish.

20% (1 in 5) of all listed fish species are threatened, endangered, or critically endangered.

30% (1 in 3) of all freshwater fish are threatened, endangered, or critically endangered.

The southeast USA used to be covered in miles and miles of native bamboo called River Cane, which filtered ALMOST 100% of nitrates and other pollutants out of waterways and groundwater. They’re better at erosion control and water filtration than forests, and were a keystone wetland species. These riverside habitats are about 97% gone now, cleared for cattle farming and agriculture.

Our current rate and methods of land use and resource harvesting are ruinous.

And any time I think too hard about overfishing and native habitat loss I oscillate so fast between rage and grief that it’s hard to think straight.

So yeah.

I’ve got some strong opinions on fish.

If you ever have a chance to volunteer to help with local habitat conservation or restoration, I advise you make time.

Do you have any strong opinions on fish?

honestly yes!!! and im tired!!! of pretending i don't!!! here's the fucking thing about fish- they're

[adventuresofalgy]

Algy adjusted his position slightly so that he could watch the ocean playing gently on the rocks below. Even on a calm day like this one the motion was endlessly fascinating, and on a more typical West Highland day the waves would surge and churn in the wee ravine with terrific force, booming and banging and roaring as they thundered against the sheer rocky sides of the deep gully after they had thrown the surf high into the air while passing over the flatter rocks on their way. When the wind was in the right direction, Algy's assistants could hear the pounding and crashing of the sea on the headland from their house, which was at least a mile away as the fluffy bird flies…

Of course the camera always lies (even when not held steadily – Algy apologises for the incompetence of his silly assistant who forgot the tripod 🙄), for although it looks as though there might be a navigable slope down to those rocks, in reality it was a sheer 100ft drop (30m) at that point, and was especially dangerous for humans by the crumbling edge overlooking the chasm on the right.

A fluffy bird had nothing to fear, however, and Algy loved to perch in this particular place, just watching the antics of his own tiny edge of the mighty Atlantic Ocean as it washed up beside his home, and occasionally chatting with the busy sea birds, if they could manage to spare the time when they happened to pass by. Watching the sea from this spot, Algy agreed with Pablo Neruda:

I need the sea because it teaches me. I don’t know if I learn music or awareness, if it’s a single wave or its vast existence, or only its harsh voice or its shining suggestion of fishes and ships. The fact is that until I fall asleep, in some magnetic way I move in the university of the waves.

[Algy is quoting the opening stanza of the poem The Sea (El Mar) by the Chilean writer Pablo Neruda.]

[urban-shade]

my random miscellaneous sebastian headcanons. readmore because its a LOT

current

i was thinking about if he'd use special sebastian shaped emoticons like .:} and }:. and im honestly 50/50 i can see him thinking they're funny but i can also see him not wanting to think about the fact that he's a fish now and no longer human

in general i think he has a lot of identity issues. He literally NEVER brings up the fact that he is fish-esque besides telling us that he's not going to hurt us, and telling us items are on his tail. I think if he was more comfortable with his identity he might occasionally crack a joke but I think deep down he has a mask up emotionally where he tries to forget about it all.

and that mask CRACKS a little when players repeatedly climb on him!! it brings back hard memories for him and that's the most upset we ever hear him.. he doesn't even get that upset when he kills you for flash beaconing him twice.. you can fucking hear the hurt in gianni's voice acting and its just SO . AGH.

past / pre-breakout

i like thinking about what they had him get up to as an LR-P and MR-P a lot. What if they had him assemble furniture to get him used to his new 3rd arm. He thinks he's getting new furniture for his cell but then they take it away and put it in the break room and he gets SO ANNOYED. Then the 2nd furniture they have him do he assembles it and then throws it at the observation room at the top of his cell.

He'd get a game console for like one day to ensure his mental capabilities are the same as before the experimentation and for like 2 years after that day he misses his video games until he gets to play games again when he's promoted to MR-P

I feel like near the very start of things just to get a whole overview of like everything that's changed about him even if gills is only what they really gaf about (million dollar fish might as well see what your money did) they'd be testing a lot of basic stuff. Like taste. And they'd give him some normal food of different types of tastes to see if he's lost any taste receptors and he'd be like so happy but then intentionally one of the foods is really bad. And he gets so mad

i headcanon he did dual enrollment (college+hs) since he switched his college major from business to engineering and he's only 19. And that he was a massive nerd... unfortunately his fishtuation has changed him :(

there is a massive urbanshade in-network group chat/email chain for the scientists. There are a lot of inside jokes and a lot are at sebastians expense

i feel like he got food requests on his birthdays. The highlight of his years

His first request for birthday food was like a recipe his mom made a lot and he got it and it was horrible and barely seasoned because urbanshade is the worst and also they are in Norway and he is NOT going to get properly cooked authentic chilean food. And he never requested chilean food again :( Didn't want to be disappointed

post game

i don't think he truly realizes how big he is and if he ever gets a real human frame of reference he's going to get extremely upset about it (if he was already on edge from something else.. he's practiced at hiding/burying his emotions). The blacksite doesn't have a ton of normal size comparison things for him besides smaller human objects and humans themselves, everything is sorta larger than life there and he might feel quite big but I don't think he has a proper idea of the real scale.

Even if he escapes, even if he could deal with all the problems that come from being a snake/mermaid/fishmonster guy. He is still way too big to fit in any normal human spaces. He is truly screwed unless he can get turned back human by innovation inc...

even if he does get turned back human by innovation inc he's going to have to relive his trauma all over again. i think about that a lot

i think he'd also be conflicted on turning back human like it's the one thing he's wanted for the past 10 years but also.. He's been like this for so long.. he doesn't really feel like Sebastian the kid with a guitar that liked Metallica. He's Sebastian Solace the Saboteur… The dangerous fish man who's been forced to kill a few people out of necessity (and indirectly cause the deaths of a few hundred others)

i think he'd get phantom limb pains from his 3rd arm if he lost it in the human transformation. Like he isn't even supposed to HAVE that arm as a person and yet his brain still expects it to be there. He keeps trying to use it and then it's gone

When he first meets his family again for the first time after he escapes I think he wouldn't be human yet. Before he lets them see him he like speaks to them from behind a door or something… To try and prepare them. He's really nervous about seeing them all again because he absolutely cares about them just the same but he just feels like an outsider now.. he's changed so much

All he wants is to get back to a normal life but, normal human life doesn't feel normal to him anymore. He almost misses the monotony of the blacksite. I feel like innovation inc would take a few months-year to get him turned back and he might try working for them in that time to try and adjust to being out of urbanshade since it feels familiar to him and they're more equipped to deal with a giant fish man than his family's home. But ever so often things there remind him of urbanshade and he goes back to feeling like he's about to be shot on sight.

biology

silver spiny fins are some of the best vertebrates at seeing color in low light conditions! i think he has that trait from them

mantis shrimp like to burrow. I think he has some kind of instinct where he feels more at home in small enclosed spaces (he loves blankets)

what if his upper body had sandpaper shark scales. i dont want to put him through that because can you imagine putting on a cotton shirt with sandpaper skin???? too cruel. but its fun to think about

i think he molts but its only like once a year. The first time he does it he has like absolutely no idea that's what's happening he's just like insanely itchy or something and then he realizes his tail skin has PEELED OFF and he's like (HORRIFIED) but then realizes what's going on . And then it takes forever for him to get it all off and he just stares at it like Eugh after

the second time he realizes he can use the shed to screw with the researchers. Researcher walks in his heavy containment cell in the morning and there's just like a massive translucent crumpled version of him in the corner and they just scream before realizing 2 seconds later

the scientists have a sped up video of him molting to metallica music like how people post timelapses of their snakes shedding

[bethanythebogwitch]

I mentioned on my last post that my last job was removing invasive carp from the Mississippi river. While what we were doing was good and has made a measurable difference, It pales in comparison to the difference that could be made if commercial fishermen took up the gauntlet of helping remove them en masse.

One of the best things for encouraging the removal of an invasive species is to develop a market for it to encourage people to take them out of the wild. In the case of the carp, there was no market for them so fishermen wouldn't take them as they'd make no money from it. My job partnered with someone who was trying to make a market for them. We gave him the fish we caught and he turned them into bait and fertilizer. We couldn't accept payment for them due to working on a grant but if fishermen could sell carp to fertilizer or bait companies, they would be more likely to keep the carp instead of tossing them back.

Recently, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources started an attempt to develop a market for carp by renaming them to copi. The idea is that the word "carp" has a negative stigma which discourages people from eating them, so rebranding the meat to "copi" can open up a new market. The fish are eaten in their native rage in Asia and from what I've heard are quite good (I wanted to try some but never got the chance) so the rename would ideally help with getting people to try their meat. This has apparently worked in previous cases such as renaming the Patagonian tooth fish to the Chilean sea bass. Will it work? I haven't seen any data on whether or not its working and it may be too soon to draw conclusions, but hopefully this will help reduce the invasive carp populations and may be a model usable for other invasive species.

Check this website for more information and places where you can buy copi. If I ever get the chance to buy some, I will. choosecopi.com

[flyingwea]

@dtblrsecretsanta gift for @voidpidgeon!!! :D

Decided to write a little bit too to add a little bit of context under the cut. Hope you like it :]

Anyway Dream as La Pincoya!

La Pincoya: Chilean Myth

"In the south of Chile, Chiloe. Fishermen oftentimes have talked about an ageless beautiful creature with the appearance of a human with blonde hair and sunkissed skin. Not only their beauty has been to never forget for the few that had seen Pincoya but their blessings and curses have marked Chiloe's people for generations with whimsical stories.

It has been counted with the fingers of one hand the times that people in Chiloe had been able to witness Pincoya dancing out of the sea. The very few times that Pincoya had danced looking towards the coast fishermen got blessed with abundant fish of every kind for days on end, but the times that Pincoya has danced looking towards the unending sea fishermen had nothing but sand, trash and the vast salty sea, not even a piece of seaweed to be found in their nets.

No one is sure why Pincoya gives them those blessings and those curses, some say the abundace is given for the kindness and respect of the people for the sea that Pincoya sees and feels in the grains of sand, meanwhile the absence comes from the greed and disrespect Pincoya savors in the water; But some others thinks it's just for whim."

[i-give-u--art]

How do u feel Abt the fact that nobody so far has whitewashed Sebastian Solace (that I know of)

Pretty good :3

Although most people do draw him as a blue fish man so………

But yea it’s so cool that we’re getting Chilean representation in a Roblox game X3

[eightspringdays]

there's something so chilean about spamming chilean food recipes in the comments of anything that slightly bothers them. it started with our mortal enemy, Adam Levine with our level of hate being so strong that motherfucker is NEVER setting foot here ever again and had his Instagram comments disabled for like three YEARS. he's literally chilean public enemy number 1

Donald Trump had to close his Instagram comments once and now the miss universe Instagram has every single chilean traditional food recipe there, including how to boil water and clean fish heads for soup.