May 29, 2013 Beach Seine
This is the first seine of this season. It was a warm (15ºC appx), rainy day with a very slight breeze. We started at low tide at 4:30 and by 5:00 brought the net in. Lots of herring, chum and pinks, and a record 5 sturgeon poachers!
Present: Russel (honcho), Madrona (fish wrangler), Julie (lavager), David (boat guy), Bill C. (pulled the net with his truck), Susan B (net puller, fish counter), Glen (herring maven), Justine and (?) Matthew (interns).
Present: Russel (honcho), Madrona (fish wrangler), Julie (lavager), David (boat guy), Bill C. (pulled the net with his truck), Susan B (net puller, fish counter), Glen (herring maven), Justine and (?) Matthew (interns).
May 29 Fish Catch
1 Gunnel, around 500 mm
858 Herring. Glen recorded fork lengths of 96, 98, 102, 108, 112, 112, 113, 114, 116, 116 mm.
1 Pile Perch
164 Striped Perch, ranging in size from appx 80 mm to 120 mm.
1 Bay Pipefish (male)
5 Sturgeon Poachers (see two photos)
864 Chum and Pink Salmon, more Chum than Pinks but not a lot more. The smaller ones were about 60 mm.
1 Buffalo Sculpin
1 Staghorn Sculpin (see photo)
1 Smelt @125mm
5 Snake Prickleback
2 Tubesnout
13 Coonstripe Shrimp
3 Helmet Crabs
4 Redrock Crabs
several moon jellies
a jelly that looked like a moon jelly but without the four crescent-shaped gonads (see photo)
several ctenophores (comb jellies)
858 Herring. Glen recorded fork lengths of 96, 98, 102, 108, 112, 112, 113, 114, 116, 116 mm.
1 Pile Perch
164 Striped Perch, ranging in size from appx 80 mm to 120 mm.
1 Bay Pipefish (male)
5 Sturgeon Poachers (see two photos)
864 Chum and Pink Salmon, more Chum than Pinks but not a lot more. The smaller ones were about 60 mm.
1 Buffalo Sculpin
1 Staghorn Sculpin (see photo)
1 Smelt @125mm
5 Snake Prickleback
2 Tubesnout
13 Coonstripe Shrimp
3 Helmet Crabs
4 Redrock Crabs
several moon jellies
a jelly that looked like a moon jelly but without the four crescent-shaped gonads (see photo)
several ctenophores (comb jellies)
May 29 Chinook Lavaging
We lavaged about 25 juvenile chinook, ranging in size from teeny and too small to lavage, to bigger ones at 110 mm. Many of them had parasitic copepods, even though only one was a hatchery fish. Many had been eating juvenile sand lance (I'm pretty sure that's what those translucent fishies were), and a few had been eating euphausids (krill).