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Saturday, September 12th, 1:00 PM - “Hillstream Loaches”
SPU, Otto Miller Hall Room 109
Bonus informal talk Friday evening September 11 at Romeo's Pizza in Edmonds
We are privileged to have guest speaker Sam Fernald opening our fall season!
Samuel Joseph Fernald is a lifelong aquarist from Down East, Maine. After many trips to Southeast Asia, he developed a passion for the Gastromyzontidae “Hillstream Loaches” and several other obscure lineages of freshwater fish. A former COVID-era epidemiologist, he also devotes some free time to consulting on a variety of public health topics.
Seizing an opportunity to enter the aquarium industry’s import business through importing Asian native fish, Sam and his business partners in Guangxi founded Hillstream Kingdom LLC in 2023; an import warehouse utilizing a network of friends and hunters from Myanmar to Papua––paying them fairly in USD to ethically source the rarest loaches, medakas and rainbowfish offered for sale in America.
In addition, he will be speaking at a small bonus gathering on the night before -- Friday September at Romeo's Pizza in Edmonds. Sam will speak on fish diversity of Sahul - Australasia! Order some food and hang with the speaker at 6 PM, talk begins promptly at 7.
After the presentation on Saturday, stay for our Monthly Auction after (sellers, pre-register your stuff here).