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One-year-old spade fish swim around their tank the morning before the tagging. ©Janet Krenn/VASG
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Dan Sennett (VIMS) corrals a cobia into the net for tagging. ©Janet Krenn/VASG
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VIMS and VT staff hold down an almost-two-foot-long cobia so it could be tagged. ©Dan Kauffman/VT
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Dan Sennett (VIMS) holds down a cobia, just under two feet long, while Susanna Musick (VIMS) inserts a tag. ©Dan Kauffman/VT
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Not waiting for another second, a tagged cobia leaps out of the hands of Stephanie Gray (micorbiologist at VT). ©Janet Krenn/VASG
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Canadian Hannah Mark, VT aquaculture intern, tries to get a better grip on the cobia she's releasing. ©Janet Krenn/VASG
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Meanwhile, Luiz Teixera, a VT aquaculutre intern from Brazil, and VT staffers Steve Urick and Mike Jahncke load up the Sea Breeze with a large hauling tank for transporting spadefish. ©Dan Kauffman/VT
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Amandine Lecrenais, a VT aquaculture intern from France, uses a wet towel to gently lower a tagged cobia into the water. ©Janet Krenn/VASG
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Victor Andrade, a Brazilian student interning at VT, lowers a cobia into the Hampton River. ©Janet Krenn/VASG
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Back inside, these one-year-old spadefish will get tagged and measured before released into the wild. ©Janet Krenn/VASG
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200 spade fish were transfered to the SeaBreeze and taken to out farther from shore to be released. ©Janet Krenn/VASG
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Luiz Teixera, a VT aquaculutre intern from Brazil, monitors the oxygen levels in the tank while the spadefish are in transit. ©Janet Krenn/VASG
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Amandine Lecrenais, a VT aquaculture intern from France, pulls a net full of spadefish out of the holding tank. ©Janet Krenn/VASG
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Stephanie Gray (VT microbiologist) lowers a net full of spadefish into the water. ©Janet Krenn/VASG
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Synchronized science? VT aquaculture interns Luiz Teixer (Brazil) and Amandine Lecrenais (France) pulling the last of the spadefish out of the holding tank. ©Janet Krenn/VASG