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  • Nº95 # Date: 2012-08-19 - 14:26
  • # Max Depth: 18.3m Duration: 44mins
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Tons of nudibranchs!

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  • Temp: Bottom 9°C
  • Dive type : Recreational
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 14.1 kg
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Sebastes caurinus Richardson, 1844 (copper rockfish) Particularly abundant in shallow, protected bays and inlets, among rocks and kelp beds; also found around pilings and jetties or under floats . Juveniles found in loose aggregations in shallow weedy bays, around wharfs, o...
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Crossaster papposus (Linnaeus, 1767) (spiny sun star, common sun star)
Lepidopsetta bilineata (Ayres, 1855) (Rock sole) Occurs over sand and gravel substrates to depths of 339 m; larvae collected over depths less than 1,000 m . Feeds on mollusks, polychaete worms, crustaceans, brittle stars, and fishes . A tasty food fish; in some years commercial catch in Canada reaches 3,000 t .
Ophiodon elongatus Girard, 1854 (Blue cod) Ranges from the intertidal to 475 m depth . Adults are found near rocks, inshore and to 427 m . Young occur on sand or mud bottom of bays and inshore areas . Both migratory and non-migratory populations exist . Adults ...
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Sebastes miniatus (Jordan and Gilbert, 1880) (Vermilion rockfish) Adults inhabit shallow to deep rocky reefs, less common on deep ones . Young inhabit shallow water . Viviparous . Sold as fillets together with other rockfish .
Metridium farcimen (Tilesius, 1809) (gigantic anemone)
Dermasterias imbricata (Grube, 1857)
Cancer productus J. W. Randall, 1840 (red rock crab)

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