Lumpfish
The life of the lumpfish is poorly mapped. They are born in the summer from a lump of roe (eggs) that the male lumpfish has guarded for two months. Several female lumpfishes contribute to the same lump of eggs from February to May. The female lumpfishes are invited to a suitable spawning ground of males guarding it.
Each female spawn 1/7 of their body weight. When fertilized, the eggs become sticky and they attract to stones or rocky bottom. The eggs from the different females have different color, so that the lump of eggs guarded by one male may be both green, yellow and red.
The small lumpfishes growing up in the kelp forest, hide and seek to attach themselves with a suction disk on kelp blades, where we can see them as small buds. When they are a year old, and slightly larger than a Golf ball, they swim out into the open sea. Here they feed on plankton in 2-4 years before they wander back to the coast to spawn.
