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NOAA Photo Library Image - fish5346

Humpback whale (Meaptera novae angliead). Female 37 feet. Note barnacles (Coronula diadema) on anterior end.

Image ID: fish5346, NOAA's Historic Fisheries Collection
Location: Alaska, Akutan
Photo Date: 1938 August 6
Photographer: V. B. Scheffer
Credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection

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