Get to know the only surviving member of genus Empetrichthys, the desert-dwelling Pahrump Poolfish! This Nevada native is not nearly as well-known as its neighbor, the Devils Hole Pupfish, but similarly is endangered and endemic to isolated, highly specific desert habitat. In six seasons of Fish of the Week, this is the FIRST species we've covered in the family Goodeidae! Our guests are fish biologists Kevin Guadalupe from the Nevada Department of Wildlife's Native Fish and Amphibian Program and James Harter from our Southern Nevada Fish and Wildlife Office. You'll get a slice of history, hear about a creative and collaborative conservation approach, and leave with hope for the future.

You might also enjoy these episodes:

• S1:E46 - Devils Hole Pupfish: A Tiny Oasis
• S2:E14 - Rio Grande Suckers
• S2:E30 - Long Valley Speckled Dace: Cryptic Desert Fish
• S4:E39 - Owens Pupfish: Blue California Jewel
• S5:E19 - Rio Grande Silvery Minnow

Get to know the habits of the Blacktip Shark and why they aggregate so close to shore. Just in time for summer, Katrina and Guy visit with shark expert Stephen Kajiura from Florida Atlantic University about shifting baselines and why these sharks are adjusting their migration farther north up the East Coast. We discuss how scientists study these sharks, what drives their migration, beachgoing safety tips, fishing considerations, and what it's like to be a shark biologist.

If you like sharks, you might enjoy these episodes as well:

• S1:E29 - Salmon Sharks
• S2:E42 - Goblin Sharks
• S3:E29 - Greenland Sharks
• S4:E23 - Pacific Sleeper Sharks
• S4:E30 - Blacktip Reef Sharks
• S4:E49 - Cookiecutter Sharks

The scene is set: two neighbors with very different ways of living. One is large, long-lived, free-to-roam, blimp-like. The other: small, shorter-lived, confined, butter-like. These are the people's fish, occupying international waters and places on earth that are quite impossible for us to truly experience from the perspectives of these amazingly adapted, beautiful fish. Get to know the "albatross" of the abyssal plain, the unfortunately (or fortunately?) named Robust Assfish, AND the Atacama Trench Snailfishes in our first ever compare and contrast episode.

Our guest, Dr. Thom Linley, is Curator of Fishes at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and co-host of The Deep-Sea Podcast.

Other episodes you might like:

• S3:E25 - Mariana Snailfish: Trench Fish Extraordinaire
• S4:E13 - The Unassuming Bony-eared Assfish!

Read more:

Fishes of the hadal zone including new species, in situ observations and depth records of Liparidae: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063716300656

Independent radiation of snailfishes into the hadal zone confirmed by Paraliparis selti sp. nov. (Perciformes: Liparidae) from the Atacama Trench, SE Pacific: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12526-022-01294-0.pdf