May 4, 2009 Beach Seines
With Bruce Brown, Brandon, Kristin, Karen, and locals Susan T, Gretchen, Stan, and Julie.
The weather was chilly and overcast, with a East or NNE breeze that fell in early afternoon. Just as we were finishing the last seine, the wind picked up and then it began to rain.
Cowlitz Bay, 12:10. Low tide, 9.1ºC water, 26.7 salinity.
2 cod spp, 29 & 31 mm
2 flatfish spp, 18 & 21 mm
1 greenling spp, 68 mm
1 White-spotted Greenling (flying fish, photo below), 193 mm
2 Crescent Gunnels, 103 & 105 mm.
11 Penpoint Gunnels from 105 - 134 mm
1 Herring, 101 mm
15 Shiner Perch from 56 - 76 mm, average 68 mm
11 Striped Perch (handheld fish, photo below) from 106 - 218 mm
11 Chum Salmon from 36 - 63 mm
1 Great Sculpin, 79 mm
3 Padded Sculpins from 77 - 94 mm
1 Tubesnout, 155 mm
Also, barn swallows around the dock, and four eagles, 2 immature and 2 mature, which flew from the nest area towards Disney to TNC cliffs.
Severson Bay, 13:20. Surface: 9.8ºC, 26.6 salinity; Bottom at 1m: 9.5ºC, 26.6 salinity.
20 cod spp from 28 - 38 mm
19 flatfish spp from 20 - 43 mm
1 Penpoint Gunnel (eellike fish photo below), 263 mm
11 Sand Lance (net photo below) from 94 - 111 mm
737 Chum Salmon (Bruce counts them in photo below) from 33 - 56 mm
8 sculpin spp from 19 - 27 mm
1 Great Sculpin (fat fish in two photos below), 90 mm
1 Staghorn Sculpin, 132 mm
47 English Soles (some of these might have been Starry Flounders) from 22 - 57 mm
Also, 1 otter in the water and 2 distant flying gulls.
Zeo's Beach 14:35. Surface: 8.8ºC, 26.8 salinity; Bottom at 1m: 8.7ºC, 26.8 salinity.
1 cod spp, 28 mm
1 greenling spp, 60 mm
1 White-spotted Greenling, 68 mm
2 Crescent Gunnels at 86 and 100 mm
6 Saddleback Gunnels from 69 - 103 mm
25 Sand Lance from 90 - 108 mm
2,177 Chum Salmon (bucket photo below) from 45 - 62 mm
53 sculpin spp from 14 - 30 mm
7 Buffalo Sculpins from 61 - 76 mm
3 Great Sculpins from 82 - 91 mm
1 Sharpnose Sculpin, 60 mm
1 Soft Sculpin, 24 mm
Mail Bay: time of seine 15:46, Surface temp 10.2ºC salinity 26.6, bottom at 1 m 9.6ºC, salinity 26.6
1 flatfish spp, 40 m
1 Herring, 95 mm
1 Shiner Perch, 76 mm
1 Chinook Salmon, no measurement
9,280 Chum Salmon from 42 - 76 mm
6 sculpin spp from 20 - 30 mm
27 Staghorn Sculpins from 18 - 105 mm
1 otter, dry, rolling around in the sand near the pond outflow.