On a weekday morning in December, Eric Hilton reached down to a table covered in piscine paraphernalia: fish skeletons, piles of fish bones, colorfully dyed fish sitting in small, clear tubs of liquid ...
Deep in the bowels of the CSIRO building on Hobart's waterfront is a library like no other. At the Australian National Fish Collection, scientists study and lend out fish — just like library books.