My favorite seabirds. They are weirdly timid and daring at the same time, not afraid to come on the boat for snack but not willing to fight the fulmars for what lands in the sea.

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Last days at sea :(

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This lovely fish is a lumpfish. Every spring the Icelandic fishermen start the lumpfish season.

Lumpfish is mostly valuable for its roes but the fish itself is also edible although considered as 'eccentric' Icelandic food.

There are two traditional ways of processing it: the female fish is half-dried and probably comes third on the list of smelliest Icelandic fish after rotten shark and skate. The male fish on the other hand is salted and smoked and is pretty delicious.

This photo was taken to accompany an article about growing up in an Icelandic fishing village which I wrote for the Reykjavík Grapevine, a magazine/news paper about Iceland in English. You can read the article here if you're interested:
grapevine.is/travel/2015/04/14/lumpfish-life-growing-up-i...

Whoa, excuse the text-wall :P

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A whale coming up for a breath.

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The gannet was thinking of landing to get some fish entrails but thought better of it when the gulls and fulmars got noisy about it.

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