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Species: Clupea harengus
Attachment: herring.jpg
URL: ecoscope.com/school
Locality:* Flensborg Fjord northern Germany
Type: Sea
Salinity:* brackish
Water depth: 1 - m
Latitude:* 54°   37.45'   N       Latitude (dec): 54.624
Longitude:* 9°   51.4'   E       Longitude (dec): 9.857
Accuracy: accurate
Country:* Germany
FAO area:* Atlantic, Northeast
Temp.: 18.0°C
Date:* 15/08/2000 dd/mm/yyyy
Day time: 15:58 - h    e.g. 13:00 - 15:00
Length:* 24.0 cm     Type:* FL
Weight: 121.0 g
Abundance: occasional (usually not seen)
Life stage: juveniles
Sex: undetermined
Gear: iLEO in situ quantitative imaging system ecoscope.com/ecos_t_1.htm
Source:
Remark: small school of juvenile herring harvesting a micropatch of copepods, filterfeeding with wide open mouth and operculum - instrumentation project for GBIF and OBIS for nondestructive fish population dynamics and behavior investigation via the web with in situ sites like LEO15 - the Flensborg Fjord was extremely polluted 20 years ago - these images were scanned in a project of "Saubere Ostsee", where we set up new spawning beds and helped 200 millions larvae to hatch in Flensburg Harbor - ecoscope.com/harry
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