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The
three illustrations, below, show very different sizes of baby fish.
The babies of fish vary considerably in size, depending upon the
species and/or their stage of development. It is a real technical
problem to obtain a living specimen of 3 or 4 mm from a large body
of water.
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Figure 1) Fourbeard Rockling baby, 3 mm (0.09 in.) long. Fourbeard rocklings are found along the Canadian Maritimes in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Figure 2) Sailfin Sculpin baby, 9 mm (0.3 in.) long. Sailfin Sculpins are found in Barkley Sound and along the coast of British Columbia in the Pacific Ocean.
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Figure 3) Wrymouth baby, 18 mm (0.7 in.) long. Wrymouths are found in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the coast of the Canadian Maritimes in the Atlantic Ocean.
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