SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus) juvenile on a kelp frond, Sula Sgeir, Western Isles, Scotland, UK, February.

Alex Mustard / Detail of the egg mass of a lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus). Babbacombe, Torbay, Devon, UK. English Channel, North East Atlantic Ocean.

Terry Whittaker / Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) blue colour morph female with lumpsucker fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) scavenged from the beach. Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, Iceland. March

Terry Whittaker / Lumpsucker fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) drying in sun, traditional method of drying fish, Flatey Island, Breioafjorour, Iceland. July

Terry Whittaker / Lumpsucker fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) drying in sun, traditional method of drying fish, Flatey Island, Breioafjorour, Iceland. July

Franco Banfi / Lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus) yellow egg mass, Little Strytan dive site, Eyjafjordur nearby to Akureyri, northern Iceland, North Atlantic Ocean.

Franco Banfi / Lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus) male animal, Little Strytan dive site, Eyjafjordur nearby to Akureyri, northern Iceland, North Atlantic Ocean.

Franco Banfi / Lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus) male animal guarding his yellow egg mass, Little Strytan dive site, Eyjafjordur nearby to Akureyri, northern Iceland, North Atlantic Ocean.

Franco Banfi / Lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus) male animal, Little Strytan dive site, Eyjafjordur nearby to Akureyri, northern Iceland, North Atlantic Ocean.

Franco Banfi / Lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus) male, Little Strytan dive site, Eyjafjordur nearby to Akureyri, northern Iceland, North Atlantic Ocean.

Franco Banfi / Male Lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus), portrait, Vevang, Norway, Atlantic Ocean.

Franco Banfi / Male Lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus) guarding his yellow egg mass, Trondheimfjord, Norway, North Atlantic Ocean.