Sandy Hook's Fishes NJ - FUNNY LOOKING FISHES - Katelyn's Koi - "Dave Grant - Sandy Hook, NJ 07732 " Brookdale College Ocean Instittute at Sandy Hook, NJ .htm

Sandy Hook's (FLF)
Funny Looking Fishes
Each summer interesting fishes are found in the bay.
Usually they are southern strays that have drifted up on the Gulf Stream.

	This is a "glass eel." There are several species of conger eel that live along the East Coast. This one, collected in 2003, is a larva of one which might grow to be several feet long when it is mature. It is the first we've see in several years. To read more about wandering fishes, click here.
Try your luck at identification with our fish key to try and unscramble these fish names. 1. DACS 2. NIBOR AES 3. GOTUAT 4. HSIFEPIP 5. REFFUP	6. HSIFGNIK 7. ETAKS 8. LEEDNAS 9. BUNKER 10. FISHOAR 11. FEEDLENISH 12. MOSQUITOFISH 13. FLUTTERBYISH 14. OIK
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11.	These are a southern freshwater fish that are introduced into ponds and wetlands to eat insect larvae. 12.
13.	(Left) This tropical reef fish drifts North to New Jersey in the summer, but would have died from the cold water this winter if students from Tewksbury didn't catch it for our aquarium on October 27, 2006.
14.	(Left) OK this might be a stretch, but check out the "paint" on Katelyn's foot. (Our staff dematologist's first thought: Brother, that's going to hurt when it has to be removed, but it will cover a few payments on my Lexus...)