[Nhcoll-l] bagging and thawing or thawing and bagging?

[Callomon,Paul]

If the fins can’t be kept frozen, I would say that storage in ethanol is the only reliable path in the long term. Even if they were completely dried out, which with cartilage is probably impossible, they would shrink enormously and eventually crumble. If there’s even a little moisture in there, however, then the bacteria already in there will eventually flourish.

Paul Callomon MSc
Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates
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