Smooth Trunkfish - Bonaire

Bonaire has been producing salt since 1499. The process has been modernized; water from the Caribbean flows into Pekelmeer and is pumped into condenser ponds where it is crystallized. The salt remains are washed, slurried, cleaned, and dried before being exported. From Pekelmeer to export can take over a year. 

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Lactophrys triqueter - The smooth trunkfish has a triangular shaped body when viewed from the front; narrow at the top, wide at the bottom. The body has a dark background and is covered with white boney scales laid out in a hexagonal pattern. It inhabits areas along coral reefs or muddy bottoms not exceeding 50 meters and tends to forage alone. The mouth resembles a short snout and features thick protruding lips. When searching for food along the sandy bottom, the mouth shoots out streams of water to uncover buried invertebrates.

Black-spotted Puffer Fish - Japan

Japan uses four styles of writing: Romaji, Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana. Romaji represents Latin scripted letters. The Kanji system uses the borrowed logographics of the Chinese characters. Katakana and Hiragana styles are syllabic scripts using kanas to represent individual sounds in the Japanese language.

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Arothron nigropunctatos - The black-spotted puffer fish, also known as the dog-faced puffer, has small fins, a feature marking it as a slow moving fish. The puffer has two methods of defense against predators; it can swallow large amounts of water or air to inflate its body into a balloon to present a menacing appearance and create more surface area than the potential predator’s mouth can possibly fit. The puffer fish also secretes a neurotoxin to keep other fish at bay. Some species have sharp spines on the body as a third line of defense.