Wildlife: jg-vp-nw-fz21-fish-collection-01

Rows and rows of jars in storage bays stretch nearly from floor to ceiling at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester. Each jar contains at least one dead fish, waiting for the day it’ll interest somebody, somewhere in the world. Sarah Huber and Eric Hilton of the Nunnally Ichthyology Collection are in charge of cataloging, loaning and sometimes collecting the fish straight out of the water. This 'dead fish library' stores half a million specimens, including a great white shark.

Rows and rows of jars in storage bays stretch nearly from floor to ceiling at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester. Each jar contains at least one dead fish, waiting for the day it’ll interest somebody, somewhere in the world. Sarah Huber and Eric Hilton of the Nunnally Ichthyology Collection are in charge of cataloging, loaning and sometimes collecting the fish straight out of the water. This 'dead fish library' stores half a million specimens, including a great white shark.