World Fish Migration Day

Surprisingly I don’t ever get asked what my favourite migratory fish is, (hard to believe I know) but if I did it would have to be the pouched lamprey!

No bones or scales, a sucker mouth filled with rows of teeth that they use to latch onto larger fish and rasp out a meal, a single nostril in the middle of their head, rows of gills like sharks or rays and a lifecycle that takes them into salt AND freshwater! I’ve loved these little freaks since the moment I saw thousands of them climbing out of a river and onto land, it was pure nightmare fuel and I’ve wanted to shoot a sequence about them ever since.

If you’re a natural history producer with a freshwater spot to fill hit me up and let’s talk lampreys!