{"id":4829,"date":"2017-08-13T11:47:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T18:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2017-08-13T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T18:47:23","slug":"week-7-south-slough-fishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/2017\/08\/13\/week-7-south-slough-fishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7: South Slough fishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week was devoted to the August fish seining in South Slough. Since I already spent one blog post describing the process (http:\/\/wp.me\/p64Blw-1cd), I figured that for my blog post this week I would highlight some of the fish species that we have been encountering during the seining.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific staghorn sculpin (<em>Leptocottus armatus<\/em>) is commonly found in South Slough. It has spiky projection on its gill cover that it can raise when threatened. They also sometimes vibrate when threatened. Here&#8217;s a tiny staghorn sculpin:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/WrVNJX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4393\/35736676043_9d96de5381.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0546\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a bigger one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/WpDYpy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4337\/35710953774_dda6ac09e5.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0548\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many different species of perch live in the South Slough, including Shiner perch (<em>Cymatogaster agregata<\/em>), White seaperch (<em>Phanerodon furcatus<\/em>), Walleye surfperch (<em>Hyperprosopon argenteum<\/em>), silver surfperch (<em>Hyperprosopon ellipticum<\/em>) and Pile perch (<em>Rhacochilus vacca<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>This week we caught a striped seaperch (<em>Embiotoca lateralis<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/WrVRPz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4340\/35736686403_916bd252ce.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0542\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also get a few different species of flatfish (fish that live on the seafloor and swim on their side, with both eyes on one side of their body). English sole (<em>Parophrys vetulus<\/em>) are most common, but there are also Speckled sanddab (<em>Citharichthys stigmaeus<\/em>), and starry flounder (<em>Platichthys stellatus<\/em>). We got a huge starry flounder this week, which was really unusual.<\/p>\n<p>A tiny English sole:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/WrVQ7M\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4390\/35736680673_2886739a66.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0544\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a starry flounder:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/WrVEWT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4417\/35736649823_d7d6b3321c.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0555\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also caught a bay pipefish (<em>Syngnathus leptorhynchus<\/em>). Bay pipefish live in eelgrass beds, and their bodies mimic a strand of eelgrass. Pipefish are related to seahorses, and the males incubate the eggs, just like seahorses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/XtfRQn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4402\/36408066841_69475a4d67.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0552\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Juvenile Chinook salmon (<em>Oncorhynchus tshawytscha<\/em>) also appear pretty frequently. There are both wild Chinook and hatchery-raised Chinook. We can tell wild-born from hatchery-raised Chinook from the adipose fin (a small fin behind the dorsal fin): hatchery Chinook have their adipose fin clipped, while wild Chinook do not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/WpDVRC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4425\/35710945194_b5902664b4.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0550\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been so much fun seining and learning about the different fish in the South Slough this summer. I&#8217;m going to miss it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week was devoted to the August fish seining in South Slough. Since I already spent one blog post describing the process (http:\/\/wp.me\/p64Blw-1cd), I figured that for my blog post this week I would highlight some of the fish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/2017\/08\/13\/week-7-south-slough-fishes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p64Blw-1fT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}