| Title: Eel Grass Bed Ecology
Contact: John Norton
Description: This illustration of the life in an eel grass bed marine community was created for use on an interpretive sign for the Center for Inland Bays, near Lewes, Delaware.
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| Title: Arizona Trout
Contact: Rachel Ivanyi
Description: Apache trout, Oncorhynchus apache
Gila trout, Oncorhynchus gilae
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| Title: External and Internal View of a Sardine
Contact: Diana Marques
Description: These sardines and three other fishes in the same series were commissioned to be part of a museum exhibition that instructs on the process of preserving fish for the canning industry
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| Title: Asymm. Metamorphosis of Paralichthys dentatus
Contact: Ikumi Kayama
Description: Poster describing how as the summer flounder develops, its left eye begins to migrate to the other side of its head and begins to swim more at an angle until it is parallel to the ocean floor.
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| Title: Alaskan Halibut
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Atlantic Seashore Ecosystem
Contact: Taina Litwak
Description: Marine and intertidal invertebrates, fish and birds common to Delaware beaches and bays. Ecosystem fauna and flora including plankton species, seaweeds and dune plants. Original digital image - 4x12 foot mural.
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| Title: Striped Bass and Menhaden
Contact: Stephen Di Cerbo
Description: Striped Bass (Morone saxitilis) and Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus)
Typical predator/prey relationship which occurs wherever both fish are found. Voracious feeders, striped bass will often "herd" schools of prey fish along channels and bars where they may feed on them more effectively.
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| Title: Kelp Forest Ecosystem
Contact: Barbara Harmon
Description: Kelp Forest food web: plankton, fish, sea urchins, sea otter, seals, killer whale, humpback whale.
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| Title: Lake Raptors
Contact: Anthony Galvan III
Description: Composite illustration for article on Cachuma Lake in Santa Barbara County, California. The three species, Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle and Osprey are found during the winter months at the lake.
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| Title: Amberjack
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Stripped Bass
Contact: Taina Litwak
Description: Stripped Bass (Morone saxatilis>/i>) are a major game and commercial fish species of the Atlantic coast and the Chesapeake Bay. This is a detail of large mural - Mid-Atlantic Seashore Ecosystem.
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| Title: Kansetsu-ho China Rockfish
Contact: Stephen Di Cerbo
Description: This specimen is A China Rockfish, Sebastes nebulosus, printed in Oregon in 2004. They are perceived to be the tastiest of the rockfish, and like most of the west coast rockfish species are in population decline and currently, the annual harvest is heavily managed.
Kansetsu-ho is the indirect Gyotaku fish printing method. The support (silk) is adhered to the fish specimen and then the layered pigments are applied to the silk.
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| Title: Bowfish Skull Amia calva
Contact: Anthony Galvan III
Description: Stipple rendering of a Bowfish, also known as a Dogfish.
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| Title: Albacore Tuna
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Coastal plankton
Contact: Taina Litwak
Description: Plankton are a critical portion of the ocean food chain. This sample contains diatoms, dinoflagellates, a fish egg, fish larvae (Trinectes maculatus - hogchoaker, and Morone saxatilis - stripped bass) a Ctenophor or comd jelly, copepods, and a blue crab larva, a megalops Mid Atlantic Seashore mural, detail section of 4 x 12 foot digital painting, Seaside Nature Center, Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware.
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| Title: Brown Trout Headstudy
Contact: Stephen Di Cerbo
Description: Von Behr Brown trout, Salmo trutta, arrived in the US at the New York City waterfront in February 1883 in the form of 80,000 trout eggs nestled in chilled, moss lined trays. These introduced Salmonid ova gave rise to the main gene pool of North American Brown Trout.
These spotted jewels from the Black Forest streams of Europe sport variations of black and red accents with halos on canvases of browns and ochres and brillant yellows.
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| Title: Fish External Anatomy
Contact: Timothy Sullivan
Description: Scup
Stenotomus chrysops
Media: Watercolor, colored pencil, Adobe Photoshop
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| Title: Pond Zonation
Contact: Barbara Harmon
Description: Various zones within a freshwater pond, illustrating levels of organisms from microscopic diatoms and plankton to plants, a water bug, crayfish, mussels, painted turtle, green frog, minnows, sunfish, catfish and largemouth bass.
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| Title: Detail: Death Trawl
Contact: Frank Ippolito
Description: Cover Artwork for a New York Time / Science Times article on the effects of overfishing in the oceans of the world.
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| Title: Aquaculture 2010 Conference Logo
Contact: John Norton
Description: This logo was commissioned for the Aquaculture 2010 conference. The design was created in Adobe Illustrator.
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| Title: Bigeye
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Rainbow Trout Headstudy
Contact: Stephen Di Cerbo
Description: Rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss are native to the US, west of the Rocky Mountains. They are part of the same salmonid group as the Pacific Salmon and include an anadromous variety, commonly referred to as steelhead.
Their colors are magnificent, and spotting widely varied. Closely related to the cutthroat trout of the region, interference with the physical aspects of the water systems and transplanting has resulted in widespread interbreeding and reduction of biodiversity among the trout of the western US.
Pen & Ink and Wash.
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| Title: Oyster Life Cycle Illustration
Contact: John Norton
Description: A diagram showing the life cycle of the American Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) created for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Maryland Sea Grant.
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| Title: Capelin
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Capelin (Mallotus villosus) Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Marauders
Contact: Stephen Di Cerbo
Description: Bluefish, Pomatomous saltatrix, are a popular gamefish and are found in most warm saltwater seas. They tend to have cycles in their population, and their cannibalistic tendencies contribute to size consistencies from school to school.
Chokusetsu-ho is the direct method of Gyotaku, or Japanese fish printing. Base ink is applied to a prepared specimen and transferred to rice paper. Details and layers of subtle color washes are then added to render a dimensionally accurate of the subject.
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| Title: Fishfly Larva
Contact: Sean Twiddy
Description: This is an image of a Fishfly Larva. It was created as part of an exhibit for the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium about river macroinvertebrates. The image was made in Illustrator.
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| Title: Kohaku Koi
Contact: Amelia Hansen
Description: Watercolor and colored pencil painting of Cyprinus carpio.
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| Title: Conch
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Starfish, Eel grass and hogchoaker
Contact: Taina Litwak
Description: Eel grass (Zostera marina), common starfish (Asterias vulgaris), and Hogchoaker (Trinectes maculatus), a flat fish. Eel grass is a critical species all along the Atlantic coast, providing habitat for larvae of many fish species.
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| Title: Ephemera
Contact: Stephen Di Cerbo
Description: Brown trout, Salmo trutta, depicted here feeding during a hatch of Easten Green Drake mayflies, Ephemera guttulata. The genus name for the mayfly is an apt one, meaning something of no lasting significance. The life cycle of of mayflies spans the year, but after emerging from their aquatic form, the terrestrial Mayfly, its sole purpose being propagation of its species, seldom lives more than a few days.
Rendered in Pen&Ink with colored ink washes, this image is utilized as part of a silkscreen design. The serigraph was then created with six manually generated color separations and printed with fine mesh screens.
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| Title: Conger Eel
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Three Jacks
Contact: Stephen Di Cerbo
Description: Crevalle Jack, Caranx hippos, occurs worldwide in tropical and subtropical saltwater. Wonderfully colored, they are blueish-black to metallic green in the dorsal area, silvery and sometimes yellowish in the ventral area, with a dark dorsal fin and yellow anal fin. There is a prominent black opercular spot and a rounded spot on the lower rays of the pectorial fins.
Chokusetsu-ho is the direct method of Gyotaku, or Japanese fish printing. Base ink is applied to a prepared specimen and transferred to rice paper. Details and layers of subtle color washes are then added to render a dimensionally accurate of the subject.
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| Title: Typical Dutch landscape and it's maintenance
Contact: Mieke Roth
Description: A typical Dutch landscape, original format is 3 x A4. I made this for a Dutch governmental institution that is in charge of the maintenance of the waterways in the west of the Netherlands. The next 10 years a large project is being conducted in which most of these waterways are deepened. On the left the consequences of lack of maintenance are shown: water on places it shouldn't be.
This large illustration is the first of a series that is incorporated in several newsletters for the general public. The aim is to inform and to get the public involved in the decision process.
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| Title: Fish
Contact: Jennifer Fairman, CMI
Description:
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| Title: Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Reserve
Contact: John Norton
Description: Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve logo created in Adobe Illustrator
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| Title: Vanishing Fish of the Colorado River
Contact: Rachel Ivanyi
Description: Colorado pike minnow, Ptychocheilus lucius
Woundfin, Plagopterus argentissimus
Bonytail chub, Gila elegans (juvenile)
Humpback chub, Gila cypha
Razorback sucker, Xyrauchen texanus
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| Title: Geoduck Clam
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Sand Flea
Contact: Taina Litwak
Description: The Mole crab, also called Sand flea (Emerita talpoida) is a crustacean of the intertidal zone on sandy beaches. It can be seen burrowing furiously, tail first, into the sand, as each wave recedes down the beach. They are easily caught and are often used as fish bait. This is a detail of a 4 x 12 foot mural, Atlantic Seashore Ecosystem.
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| Title: Naturally Blind Species
Contact: Travis Vermilye
Description: Evolution of loss of sight and loss of the eye in nature
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| Title: Southestern Estuary
Contact: Barbara Harmon
Description: Animals of the estuary, including Wood Stork, Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Blue Crab, Barnacles, Cormorant, Bald Eagle, Spottail Bass, Shortnose Sturgeon, flounder, shrimp.
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| Title: Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Contact: Anthony Galvan III
Description: Bald Eagle portrait in pencil.
One in a series of four pencil portrait note cards. Used by Ojai Raptor Center,Ojai, California to highlight the raptor center.
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| Title: King Crab
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Moray eel jaw mechanics
Contact: Melisa Beveridge
Description: This Photoshop Illustration accompanies an article in the February 2008 issue of Natural History Magazine. The Moray eel has a second set of jaws that reaches out to pull in prey.
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| Title: Tetrapod Evolution
Contact: Barbara Harmon
Description: Evolution becomes evident from bony fish to the first tetrapod by placing an intermediate form resembling a modern day lungfish or Coelocanth in between.
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| Title: Fish of the Rio Yaqui
Contact: Rachel Ivanyi
Description: Yaqui chub, Gila purpurea
Mexican stonerolloer, Campostoma ornatum
Beautiful shiner, Cyprinella formosa
Yaqui sucker, Catostomas bernardini
Yaqui catfish, Ictalurus pricei
Yaqui topminnow, Poeciliopsis occidentalis sonoriensis
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| Title: Squid
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Long-finned Squid (Loligo pealei) Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Chokusetsu-ho-Tarpon
Contact: Stephen Di Cerbo
Description: Atlantic Tarpon (Megalops atlanticus), 34 inch specimen printed with direct Gyotaku method, Chokusetsu-ho. Block printing ink on rice paper with colored transparent ink washes.
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| Title: Carribean Coral Reef Mural
Contact: Taina Litwak
Description:
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| Title: Mola mola (Ocean Sunfish)
Contact: Barbara Harmon
Description: One of many illustrations done for a grade 2 science book called "Wacky Fish", for Scholastic, Inc.
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| Title: Water Jets!
Contact: Frank Ippolito
Description: Detail from the Biolocomotion / Swimming poster.
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| Title: Bay Bridge Rockfish
Contact: Kim Harrell
Description: The concrete pilings of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge- Tunnel provide a surface for colonizing invertebrates; they also cause eddies as currents sweep past. Small fish shelter and feed here, and larger predatory fish like these rockfish (or striped bass) wait "downstream". Anglers seek out the rockfish as pelicans pass by.
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| Title: trout-perch
Contact: Carlyn Iverson
Description: Trout-perch, a freshwater fish
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| Title: Food Web Diagram
Contact: John Norton
Description: Food Web illustration created for the exhibit area of the Center for Lake Champlain.
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| Title: Monkfish
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Atlantic Tarpon Head Study
Contact: Stephen Di Cerbo
Description: Atlantic Tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) Stippled pen and Ink head study, 34 inch specimen. The Genus Megalops, from the Greek translates into large eyed, a conspicuous feature of this migratory predator.
Adults can reach 8.5 feet and 350 pounds, and live more than 50 years.
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| Title: A little bit of ocean
Contact: Mieke Roth
Description: A cube of a small piece of coastal rocks.
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| Title: Red drum
Contact: Kim Harrell
Description: This red drum was part of an article for "Chesapeake Bay" magazine about large fish that are popular with bay anglers.
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| Title: America Marten, Fisher and Long-tailed Weasel
Contact: Trudy Nicholson
Description: America Marten (Martes americana), Fisher
(Martes pennante), Long-tailed-Weasel (Mustela
frenata). Medium: Pencil on Scratchboard.
Published in "Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind"
by Warner Shedd. Harmony Books 2000.
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| Title: Surfin' Seafood Cartoon
Contact: John Norton
Description: T-shirt Design for Aquaculture 2004 Conference in Hawai'i
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| Title: Octopus
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Venomous
Contact: Stephen Di Cerbo
Description: Lionfish , various genus of family Scorpaenidae, and related to scorpionfish. These fish native to tropical Indo-Pacific waters, are voracious predators and venomous in nature. Considered invasive species, they have jumped into ocean systems world wide, undoubtedly added by the Aquarium trade.
This image is multi-color lino print, made with the subtractive process.
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| Title: Black Crappie, White Bass, and Rock Bass
Contact: Emily Damstra
Description: Illustrations of three fishes, from top: Black Crappie Pomoxis nigromaculatis, White Bass Morone chrysops, Rock Bass Ambloplites rupestris.
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| Title: Saltmarsh Habitat Cutaway
Contact: Barbara Harmon
Description: Many of the key inhabitants of the Eastern Salt Marsh system: Green Heron, Blue Heron, Sharp-tailed Marsh Sparrow, Willet, ducks, Canada geese, Belted Kingfisher, Osprey, Red Fox, Raccoon, American Eel, Horseshoe Crab, Fiddler Crabs, Dragonfly, Ribbed Mussels, Plankton, minnows, snails, Seaside Lavendar, Ammophila brevigulata, Spartina patens, etc.
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| Title: Oyster
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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