PADDLEFISH EGGS -- Here is a video from today (April 10) of nine-day-old paddlefish eggs from MDC Blind Pony Hatchery Manager Nathan Storts. The eggs are expected to hatch on Saturday (April 12). They will be raised at the hatchery before being released into select Missouri reservoirs. | Missouri Dept. of Conservation

1.9K views · 97 reactions | Paddlefish might look big and scary, but actually they are very harmless fish. They are filter feeders and use hundreds of gill rakers specially adapted to filter plankton from the water. Its long paddle is covered with electroreceptors that are used to locate electric fields given off by zooplankton. #Paddlefish | National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium | Facebook