Brassy minnow caught microfishing
This fish appeared to have gotten trapped in the shallows at Windjammer park in Oak Harbor. Fish was worn out, but alive when I picked it up with my hands.
This large 5-foot long ray was found in 90 feet of water in Puget Sound at a popular shore diving site Redondo Beach.
Specimen deposited at the Canadian Museum of Nature: PARATYPE: CMNC 1987-0364. Thanksgiving Cave, cave pools, streamway below main entrance. Collected by Patrick D. Shaw.
4 Captured.
Odd catch for the light trap:
Maybe the dock is suitable habitat? Did it swim over from one of the islands? Why aren't these observed more often?
Caught microfishing
Possible salfin due to fins but it is so small I am not confident.
Around 5pm today in the middle of the road. Large 3ft or more snake. Hisisng, loud, almost like a rattle noise. But no tail rattle. Defensive while I kept distance. Aggressive. Never took its eyes off me. Opened mouth often. No teeth. Black eyes. Black tongue. Large center. Moments prior a large barred owl flew past my windshield and watched me as I approached snake. An epic moment in my day. I was going to pick up my son who was with a native medicine woman.
There are 7 individuals in this frame. This is the first time I've seen these guys hang out in groups like this (they're even cuddle-puddling). I have seen it many times since, but only at this site.
If you also see this behaviour in whitespotted greenling, please let me know. It's unusual.
high lateral line, long uninterrupted dorsal fin. Found on a sandy bottom adjacent to a rocky slope
E. oregonus seems likely, but this was a very small pool on bedrock (lots of tannins, but no vegetstion) rather than the relatively large forest pools I've seen them in elsewhere. Also very small
observed while nightlighting about 10 PM.
tragically in the puddle that dried up a day after this was taken
Hook and line
Downstream pool from impassable culvert.
Catch and release
someone at the beach seine identified it as a shad, but adult photos taken elsewhere of shad look different than this fish photo here.
Scientific survey for fisheries research
poachers found at low tide beach near eelgrass/seaweed bed
The pinks are schooling at the mouth of Departure Bay Creek in advance of late Summer and early Fall rainstorms.
James Island Wharf, small fish jumping out of the water, foam on the surface, hard to say what they are - likely Northern Anchovies.
Between 150 and 300 fathoms, bottom trawl
Jackson Chu long-term biodiversity monitoring site in Saanich Inlet.
Data from:
Chu, J.W.F., Curkan, C. and Tunnicliffe, V., 2018. Drivers of temporal beta diversity of a benthic community in a seasonally hypoxic fjord. Royal Society open science, 5(4), p.172284.