Feeling like it's officially #pupfishweek, so here's another one of my favorite videos but this time from the field! I took this video of a cutely colorful male #Cyprinodon beltrani while swimming in less than a meter of water in Laguna Chichancanab during our last field season with … 🧵👇

Tired: Hit & Run Wired: Shit & Run

A rare longnose batfish galumphed its way into the Coral City Camera Catalog of Fishes this morning as a brand new species of fish (Number 220) we’ve never seen before after 6 plus years of observing! 👃🦇🐟 #longnosebatfish #batfish #coralcitycameracatalogoffishes #coralcitycamera #elegantoddball

Bills under consideration in the House aim to expand commercial access to walleye and trout as whitefish catch rates plummet. Recreational fishing advocates and state fishing regulators object. Story by @bridgemi.com: www.greatlakesnow.org/2026/05/27/w...

Apply for the Headwaters Leadership Academy! 📅 Deadline: Monday, June 15 This program for early career freshwater scientists provides mentorship, service, and professional development opportunities beyond typical training offered in traditional academic settings. Learn more here: buff.ly/rwLK01F

IISG Buoy Specialist Les Warren deployed the Wilmette & Chicago Lake Michigan buoys on Saturday providing real-time water temp, wave height, wind speed, & atmospheric data is back online & open to all. Michigan City coming soon. Wilmette: iiseagrant.org/wilmettebuoy/ Chicago: iiseagrant.org/45198/

The Center for Water Policy’s Cami Armendariz won “Best Short Video” in the 2026 Planet Forward Storyfest for her video “Bringing Back the Giants: Sturgeon Restoration in the Milwaukee River Watershed.” Congratulations Cami! Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhHf...

A sea elephant (heteropod). Such a strange and enchanting creature. It is technically a type of swimming snail.

Flap flap flap here comes the rainbow parade 🫡🌈🦜🐟💨 #rainbowparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #parrotfish #coralcitycamera

Some of you know I've been doing a Taiwan biodiversity journaling project this year. Slightly cheating for #SundayFishSketch is my 145th daily sketch Monopterus alba 鱔魚 siān-hî. Invasive elsewhere in the world, yellow swamp eels are an iconic street dish of 台南 Tainan. #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 #鱔魚意麵 🦑🐡🧪

First #SundayFishSketch since I got back from my coastal residency, and I am still super busy, but here's a quick, very messy #sketch of a largescale sucker (Catostomus macrocheilus)! Copic markers and Micron fineliner. #fish #wildlife #animals #illustration

92/100 Yellowtail Snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus #SundayFishSketch #dothe100dayproject #the100dayproject #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #marineart #fishart #snapper #yellowtail Inspired by the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social

#SundayFishSketch this week is a newly described species of goby because apparently I am on a goby spree

My #SundayFishSketch has been in the works for the last several weeks (sorry for being so absent) but it’s a yellow perch (Perca flavescens) on a matcha bowl I threw on the wheel!

Caught #SundayFishSketch this week, yay. Titan triggerfish sketchbook studies 🎨🐡 #art #sketchbook #tradArt #fishArt #sciArt #wildlife #natureArt

100 Days of Reef Fish 92/100: Whitetip Reef Sharks, Triaenodon obesus, often seen resting on the reef bottom or in caves during the day. At night, whitetip reef sharks form frenetic hunting packs scouring the sea floor. #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife #dothe100daysproject #sundayfishsketch

A Muskie and Rainbow Trout for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

It's another funny fish faces edition of #SundayFishSketch with the Black Bullhead. I think I'm starting to figure it out. Guest star, Smallmouth Buffalo.

Fish migrations are somewhat invisible compared to other animals - but no less important to ecosystems and people. Unfortunately, a report out earlier this year found that migratory freshwater fish have declined by 81% since 1970 #WorldFishMigrationDay theconversation.com/the-worlds-g...

For nearly 100 years, four large dams on the Klamath River blocked salmon and steelhead trout from reaching more than 400 miles of habitat. 🐟 This World Fish Migration Day, enjoy this footage of their return to historic spawning habitat post-dam removal! 🎥 Swiftwater Films

I aspire to be cocktail shrimp. Although, how you keep the cocktail in the glass underwater is a mystery

Just hangin’ here, happy in my clam

tag yourself, I'm Existential Crisis Bug

There's something mesmerizing about the way this marauding Acotylean flatworm flows over the across the terrain, like a liquid with frills.

Kudos to the State of Michigan for taking this important step in protecting our waters from these known invasive plants. The ecological risks of allowing their possession and sale are simply too great.

One of my all time favorite nudibranchs, Bornella anguilla. Like a harlequin patterned dragon soaring through its little domain

boop

very beautiful, very powerful

When you’re trying to nap but everyone keeps opening the door

Forgot to post yesterday but here are more fish faces for #SundayFishSketch. Finished the bass with yellow bass.

White grunt gets its big mouth cleaned by a neon goby at the Lower Brain Coral day spa #whitegrunt #neongoby #sayahhh #braincoral #coralcitycamera

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Inside every human who has ever thought about the ocean are 2 wolves

My god have I actually caught #Sundayfishsketch for once!?

85/100 Bigeye Scad, Selar crumenophthalmus #SundayFishSketch #dothe100dayproject #the100dayproject #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #marineart #fish #fishart #scad Inspired by the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social

My office mate was like you gotta do the Snuffleupagus hairy pipefish for #SundayFishSketch this week and who am I to say no 🤷🏼‍♀️

A quick Endler's guppy from memory for #SundayFishSketch 🐡🦑🧪

Some Pumpkinseeds for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

Surfing sea turtle 🤙🌊🏄🐢 #greenseaturtle #seaturtle #seaturtlesofcoralcity #hangten #coralcitycamera

A little stomatopod (mantis shrimp) peers out of its hole, looking up at my dive light

News that @greenleejw.bsky.social will find reely interesting! blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/14/a... cc @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @moxostoma.bsky.social @drkatfish.bsky.social @drfishsg.bsky.social

Exciting news: the #GLANSIS database has a new look! The Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species Information System has the same functionality #AIS researchers know and love, with improved navigation and new features for scientists + educators. Check it out here: www.glerl.noaa.gov/glansis/

📣 Call for proposals: the 2026 State of Lake Michigan Meeting (Nov. 4–6, Michigan City, IN) is accepting symposia and workshop submissions. If you have a timely Great Lakes topic worth a dedicated session, proposals are due June 1 at 1 PM ET. Submit: iiseagrant.org/solm

Faces of the Tallapoosa River… a thread of fish 🐠🤩 #fish #rivers #alabama #streams

May is Water Safety Month 🌊 Dangerous currents near Lake Michigan piers and breakwalls catch swimmers by surprise every year. The key move if caught: swim to the side, not against the current, then to shore. More Lake Michigan-specific safety resources: www.lakemichigansafety.org

My goodness this is cute. Short & Harasti (2026) named a new pipefish species after Snuffleupagus (the giant elephant muppet) Image of Solenostomus snuffleupagus sp. nov. by David Harasti. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 4 fellowship opps w/ the U.S. EPA #GreatLakes National Program Office! 🌊 Gain hands-on experience in #GreatLakes monitoring, restoration, field sampling on the R/V Lake Guardian, #scicomm, data analysis & more. 📍Chicago, IL ✍️ Apply by May 29 🔗 zintellect.com/Opportunity/...

bad shrimp get the H O S E

Tiger Barb #SundayFishSketch