Shifting Baselines in the Hood

Just in time for the one year anniversary: Check out this sweet new hoodie designed by Sarika Cullis-Suzuki, another graduate student of Daniel Pauly's here at the UBC Fisheries Centre. She insists she made the gyotaku (fishprint) and THEN shrank it--so her hook-and-line caught rockfish was not really that small.

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