The lumpfish is small. As its name suggests, it's rather lumpy – not streamlined, like the fish that interest most recreational and commercial anglers. It isn’t eaten or harvested in New England.

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Lumpy, but brilliant under UV light. By Annie Roth What color is a lumpfish? The answer is more complicated than you might expect. These bumpy, bottom-dwelling fish, found in the North Atlantic and ...

The Pacific spiny lumpsucker is a funny-looking fish with a round body, bubbly eyes and a mouth agape. But under fluorescent lighting it looks terrifying -- "demonic" even. That's the conclusion Leo ...

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Last week I spoke with several lobstermen on the pier and asked them to call me if they pulled up a small lumpfish in their traps. They all said that they hauled them in quite often and would be happy ...

The diminutive predator is a terrible swimmer but thrives in the intertidal zone thanks to odd evolutionary adaptation. A Pacific spiny lumpsucker specimen under fluorescent light. Its bony scales ...