New Discoveries Of and About Fishes in the High Arctic North of Siberia and Alaska
Atlantic hookear sculpin (Artediellus atlanticus), unknown in the seas off eastern Siberia and western North America until found in the Chukchi Borderland, RUSALCA 2009.
Catherine W. Mecklenburg
Research Associate
California Academy of Sciences
My team focuses on the identification and distribution of fishes that live on or near the bottom, the so-called benthic and demersal fishes. We use a bottom trawl net called an “otter trawl” to collect samples. Our mission on the Russian-American Long-term Census of the Arctic (RUSALCA) project has been to generate and disseminate essential information on the poorly studied fish fauna of the Pacific-Arctic region to a wide community of users, including the fish teams in the program focusing on other aspects such as life histories and ecology. We enable current and future monitoring of biodiversity and detection of change by providing basic knowledge on identification of species and accurate assessments of species distributions.
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