Unidentified sponge

Sponges drying at warehouse yard.

Sponges drying on fishing boat

Fisherman cleaning sponges.

Grass and sheepswool sponges growing from a common base. Specimen from Florida.

Drawing of bass

Small smallmouth bass

Kentucky and small-mouth bass

Large-mouthed black bass in aquarium

Large-mouthed black bass (Hura salmoides

Striped bass (Roccus saxatilis) drawn by G.T. Sundstrom

Striped bass in aquarium

Striped bass (Roccus saxatilis) drawn by G.T. Sundstrom

Striped or rock bass (Roccus saxatilis)

Black bass or large-mouthed bass

Large-mouthed bass (brood fish) at Corning Hatchery

Description not available.

Description not available.

Description not available.

Harpooning a young finback whale

Finback whale spouting blood after being harpooned.

Finback whale just killed in western Alaska

Finback whale swimming away from catcher boat

Tying up finback whale flukes to boat

Body about to be hauled out to flensing deck at whaling station. Finback whale.

Finback whale being hauled up to flensing deck.

Finback whale just hauled out to flensing deck.

Dead finback whale bloated after five or six days.

Cutting off the back muscle which can be used for meat.

Baleen (whalebone) from right side. From finback whale.

Tale of female finback whale from dorsal side.

Female humpback whale on flensing deck.

Whale carcasses prior to being taken to flensing deck.

Flensing operations at Akutan Whaling Station.

Cutting blubber from a sperm whale at the Akutan Whaling Station. (Physeter macrocephalus known as Physeter catodon at time of photo.)

Killer whale. View of opened mouth showing teeth and forward portion of the body. Length 27 feet.

Tail view of blue whale or sulphur-bottom whale on flensing deck.

Head of a sperm whale at Port Armstrong Whaling Station

Male killer whale, 27 feet long, on flensing deck at Akutan Whaling Station

Male killer whale, 27 feet long, with flensing crew at Akutan Whaling Station

Stripping blubber from sperm whale.

Pompano (Palometa simillima)

Pompano fish-farming site in Fort De Soto Park

Juvenile round pompano (Trachinotus falcatus), 5.95 cm standard length.

Young pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) used in fish farming experiment at Fort De Soto Park.

Drawing by G. T. Sundstrom of pompano (Trachinotus carolinus)

Drawing of the common pompano (Trachynotus carolinus) by H. L. Todd

Feeding and examination of pompano specimens in stocked pond at Fort De Soto Park.

Resting her 14,000 pounds comfortably, Gigi, the baby gray whale, is lifted from her Sea World tank in preparation for transport to NUC and subsequent release at sea.

On the last leg of her trip to sea, Gigi's barge is towed toward a pod of gray whales where she will be released.