Nightlighting
Two nights ago I went night lighting off the dock of Friday Harbor Labs. We put a small, bright light in the water. Unfortunately, the water was too murky from an earlier storm to see all the way to the bottom. But we still saw lots of interesting fish. There was a school of some type of fish, but they were too deep to be identified. We thought maybe they were sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) but they seems a bit too large. Maybe some kind of smelt or herring? Some interesting fish species that we saw were the three spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus),tadpole sculpin (Psychrolutes paradoxus) and the crescent gunnel (Pholis laeta). We also saw crab larvae, what we thought to be fish larvae, amphipods of many kinds and some sort of worm swimming on the surface.
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