Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Squilla mantis for sale

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Original - Squilla mantis for sale at a Catalonian market. S. mantis is the only native stomatopod to be fished for on a commercial scale in the Mediterranean. Over 7,000 t is caught annually, 85% of which is caught on Italian shores of the Adriatic Sea, with further production in the Ionian Sea, off Sardinia, off the coast of Catalonia and off the Balearic Islands. It is mostly taken as by-catch of other fisheries (including for sole), and commercial interest derives from the species' abundance rather than its market value.
 
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Reason
Something a little different. Potentially very eye-catching (perhaps depending on whether this is something you see often- it really drew my eye), high quality and a good size. Really hits home the fact that the "commercial interest derives from the species' abundance rather than its market value". Caption copied from the image page/article.
Articles in which this image appears
Squilla mantis, list of types of seafood
FP category for this image
Crustaceans (possibly Lifestyle)
Creator
Hans Hillewaert

Promoted File:Squilla mantis (l'Ametlla) brighter and quality.jpgMaedin\talk 14:39, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]