{"id":1548,"date":"2009-06-04T08:02:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2009-06-04T08:02:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:02:36","slug":"mahi-mahi-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2009\/06\/04\/mahi-mahi-on-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahi-mahi on the wall – largest fish print of them all!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Making<\/a>
Making a fish print of mammoth proportions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Erin<\/a>
Erin Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by Erin Loury<\/a>, Ichthyology Lab<\/p>\n

<\/a>It’s generally a good practice to get the most “bang for your buck” out of a rare opportunity – such as a giant mahi-mahi specimen.\u00a0\u00a0 After dissecting this impressive fish in our ichthyology class to study it’s feeding musculature and internal anatomy, we put it out on display for our April Open House (butchered side down, of course!).<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/a>
Our giant mahi-mahi wowed the crowds during April's Open House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you were one of the many wowed by the chance to see such a large fish up close, you may be wondering what became of the specimen after all the crowds went home.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you also made a fish print while here at Open House <\/a>– with a fish you could easily hold in your hands. We didn’t think we had done justice to our massive mahi-mahi until it too had its impression preserved in paint.<\/p>\n

Fun fact:\u00a0 Mahi-mahi only live to be 4 or 5 years old, and are some of the fastest growing fish in the world!<\/p>\n

And what next for this specimen of multiple lives?\u00a0 Grad student Katie Schmidt is undertaking the task preserving the entire fish for posterity by cleaning its skeleton – one shining vertebrae at a time.\u00a0 Stay tuned to see photos of the work in progress!<\/p>\n

\"Free<\/a>
Free wall art for the starving grad student apartment is also a plus. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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