Are these very, very juvenile rockfish, or something else altogether? They were not sitting on structure like a sculpin but were schooled in the water column.
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On some of the REEF AAT trips Janna and a couple of other folks have busted out I'D slides for Young of Year Rockfish. Different species have very different YOY coloration - for the most part very distinct to the species. A good side on photo can generally be identified and there are even categories on the I'D forms for YOY Canary, or YOY Copper, etc.LCF wrote:That's what I thought they probably were, but man, they were small!
You should work on getting good side shots of them. You will see patterns emergingng and I bet we can get most of them identified.Dusty2 wrote:Always tough to ID YOY. that's why they have a separate designation for them. They can be so different from the adults. The inside of the barge a Hudson looks like an aquarium right with the schools of new baby fishes and they don't seem to be to afraid either. Not to many adults around so I guess it's an official nursery.