#smelt

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Yesterday I visited the Maretarium Aquarium, an aquarium in Kotka, Finland! Here are some pictures :)

All the tanks and fish were very beautiful indeed! But the showstopper was definitely the Baltic Sea tank, which holds 680 000 liters of water. It’s the single biggest tank in all of Finland, it is seven meters deep, it gets its water from the Baltic right next to Maretarium, and it houses sturgeons, salmon, trout, perches, zanders, roaches… the list goes on.

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

I'm not sure I'm comfortable being compared to a popsicle stick...

Longfin Smelt (Spirinchus thaleichthys)

Pacific coast of North America from Alaska to California

Status: San Francisco Bay-Delta population is Endangered

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The subpopulation of this fish was given protection in July of this year. I saw an article describing it as "the length of a popsicle stick".

[fr0ggo00]

My friend said dealt when I said Delta Smelt and this popped into my mind, and I think I've made my best creation ever

[gasolineweirdo]

Rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax

Photo by Marian Whitcomb

[merfolkotd]

merfolk of the day: oki urume from shinkaigyo no anko-san

[dndtreasury]

Blood Smelt Plate

[thoughtlessarse]

As devastating wildfires continue to burn through Los Angeles, so far killing at least 10 people and forcing well over 100,000 people to evacuate, or try to, President-elect Donald Trump has decided to point his ire toward a fish. Not the severe Santa Ana winds that fueled the fires. Not the unusually dry weather. Not the steady march of home development into fire-prone areas. A fish. In a post Wednesday morning on Truth Social, Trump blamed California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, for depriving the LA region of water because he wanted to protect “an essentially worthless fish called a smelt.” Trump chided Newsom for not approving a water restoration declaration that doesn’t exist, per Newsom’s office. He also implied that protections for the delta smelt — a small fish species found only in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, an expansive wetland in Northern California — caused some fire hydrants to run dry in parts of LA. (Earlier this week, fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood ran dry, not because the city had no water but because of water pressure and other infrastructure issues.) This isn’t the first time that Trump has bad-mouthed this fish. For nearly a decade now, the incoming president has claimed that he can solve California’s incredibly complex water problems by simply undoing regulations designed to help the delta smelt skirt extinction, as E&E News’s Jennifer Yachnin has reported. Those problems are not rooted in drought, Trump claims, but in Democratic rules that restrain private interests. In reality, rising temperatures have made California’s droughts even dryer.

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[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #562

European smelt!

They have a distinct cucumber-like smell!

[ironcladfoundry]

Ironclad Side Comic: Thinner than Water

Page 12

Vaporeon owned by FourMurasame

Sylveon owned by Red Top Tom

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[photographymenagerie]

Smelt Run at Tawas City

Donald Emmerich

April 1973

via the National Archives

[fishfolkart]

European Smelt - is a member of the Freshwater Smelt family. It can live in both fresh and salt waters. It is native to most coastal regions of Northern Atlantic and landlocked populations are found in lakes of coastal areas of North, Baltic, White and Barents Sea. It spawns in freshwater lakes and rivers. It feeds on shrimps, crustaceans and fish. It can grow to a maximum length of 45 cm (17.7 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/160458276

[skyecoaiart]

Smelting women

More images at

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