Lingcod from California to Alaska with Bonnie Basnett

On this episode, I speak with Bonnie Basnett about collaborating with sportfishing guides, fieldwork logistics, and why lingcod are super rad. Sea urchins are also pretty rad, as we learn in this week’s creature feature from Cari Williams. If you'd like to see Bonnie with a lingcod, look no further than the cover photo for the episode! Check out Bonnie’s latest paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eva.13037 and follow her to see her ocean inspired artwork and learn some cool science facts at: https://www.instagram.com/artbybonbon/ Cari’s thesis is available for free here: http://humboldt-dspace.calstate.edu/handle/10211.3/175352 Credits: Thank you to Bonnie Basnett for allowing use of the great photo of her in the field with a turquoise morph lingcod. Theme mixed by me, using sounds sourced from sfxgo, orangefreesound, and freesound. Please see website for full credits. Thank you. Resources: Descending devices and barotrauma (https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Marine/Groundfish/Barotrauma), Lingcod (http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas/Csas/status/2001/A6-18e.pdf; https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/06/17/322920045/red-fish-blue-fish-where-the-fish-flesh-rainbow-comes-from), California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program (https://www.mlml.calstate.edu/ccfrp/about/), The Love Lab at UC Santa Barbara, an excellent place to while away the hours on the internet, while almost certainly learning too much about rockfish (https://lovelab.msi.ucsb.edu/)