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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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Cobia, a large and potentially invasive fish species recently escaped from an aquaculture farm off of the Pacific Coast of Ecuador and appears to be moving north into the Central and Eastern Pacific, where it has never before been reported.

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D. Ross Robertson, STRI

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