Pearson College Marine Science

It was a sunny Thursday morning at Esquimalt Lagoon for the other class of second year marine scientists.

Again, we did two beach seines but at this location there was much less seaweed.

We found crangonid shrimp in the seine:

We then moved to the cobbles and found a diverse collection of organisms under the rocks.

Lots of crabs including: green shore crabs (Hemigrapsus oregonensis), decorator crabs and hermit crabs.

We also found amphipods, isopods, barnacles, periwinkles, mussels, fish eggs and flatworms (and those were all under a single rock!).

Tags: beach seine, Crangon sp., decorator crab, Esquimalt Lagoon, flatworm, green shore crab, Notoplana acticola

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