Louis-Philippe Bateman, Kanada
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Mysis gaspensis is a very small Mysis species that is mainly found in brackish water areas and estuaries.
Mysis gaspensis requires shallow water roses with low water currents and a bottom substrate of sand and small stones, where larger shoals of hundreds of Mysis can be observed.
As small as the little creatures are, if you want to catch them with a close-meshed landing net, the mysis shrimps reach lightning-fast top speeds to escape capture.
As there are many species of fish that live in fresh water and marine fish that spend part of their lives in fresh water and then migrate to the sea to reproduce (catadromous migratory fish), as well as fish that migrate to brackish water or the fresh water of rivers to spawn (anadromous migratory fish), these mysis shrimps are an ideal and protein-rich food.
The same naturally also applies to juvenile fish.
We would like to thank Louis-Philippe Batemann, Bachelor of Science, from McGill University, Department of Biology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for the first photo of the species.
Mysis gaspensis requires shallow water roses with low water currents and a bottom substrate of sand and small stones, where larger shoals of hundreds of Mysis can be observed.
As small as the little creatures are, if you want to catch them with a close-meshed landing net, the mysis shrimps reach lightning-fast top speeds to escape capture.
As there are many species of fish that live in fresh water and marine fish that spend part of their lives in fresh water and then migrate to the sea to reproduce (catadromous migratory fish), as well as fish that migrate to brackish water or the fresh water of rivers to spawn (anadromous migratory fish), these mysis shrimps are an ideal and protein-rich food.
The same naturally also applies to juvenile fish.
We would like to thank Louis-Philippe Batemann, Bachelor of Science, from McGill University, Department of Biology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for the first photo of the species.
