Fish identification

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Fish identification
1. Aids to identification 2. Test and
identification (concurrent) - Display
picture - Record what you think it is -
Instant answer! 3. Discuss key characters Make
notes!
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Aids to identification
1. Books 2. Cheat sheet 3. YOY
identification flow diagram
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Cheat sheet
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YOY identification flow chart
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Juvenile rockfish identification guide
Deep body
Elongate body
Dorsal spot
No spot
Dorsal spot
No spot
Clear lateral line on bottom Canary (SPIN)
Long maxilla Bocaccio (SPAU)
Maroon mottling Blue (SMYS)
Solid red, black anal fin Vermilion (SMIN)
Unidentified YOY
No white dorsal spots, clear tail, uniform
color Black (SMEL)
Brown bars on light body (KGB complex)
White dorsal spots, yellow fins (including
pectoral) Olive-yellowtail complex (OYT)
Clearing on lateral line Copper (SCAU)
Y on 4th bar Kelp (SATR)
No Y, no clearing, but big enough to have these
markings Gopher-Black/yellow (GBY)
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CA Scorpionfish Scorpaena guttata SGUT
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Treefish Sebastes serriceps TREE
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Giant Kelpfish Heterostichus rostratus HROS
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Island kelpfish Alloclinus holderi AHOL
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Garibaldi Hypsopops rubicundus HRUB
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Rock wrasse Halichoeres semicinctus HSEM
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Opaleye Girella nigricans GNIG
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Halfmoon Medialuna californiensis MCAL
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Blue-banded goby Lythrypnus dalli LDAL
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Zebra goby Lythrypnus zebra LZEB
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Jack mackerel Trachurus symmetricus TSYM
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Chub mackerel Scomber japonicus SJAP
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Topsmelt/jacksmelt Atherinops affinis/ A.
californiensis ATH
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Sargo Anisotremus davisdsonii ADAV
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Shiner surfperch Cymatogaster aggregata CAGG
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Hornshark Heterodontus francisci HFRA
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Mola mola (Ocean sunfish) Mola mola MOMO
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Blue rockfish Halfmoon Blacksmith Black
rockfish
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Pile surfperch Rubberlip surfperch
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Bocaccio Olive rockfish
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Copper rockfish Gopher rockfish
Black and yellow rockfish