Collecting fishes and building a fish collection

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Collecting fishes and building a fish collection

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Motomura, H & S Ishikawa (eds.), 2013. Fish collection building and procedures manual. The Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto. 70 pp.

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This is not a catfish-specific work, but it gives you a good overview of how scientists collect, process and accession fish for collections.
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Really nice guide. Thanks for posting HH.

My fish photography skills are lousy, and think this will help a lot.
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