Pacific Northwest Marine Life photos

Lopholithodes mandtii Puget Sound King Crab amid a field of plumose anemones and red kelp, Queen Charlotte Strait, Canada.
Species: Puget sound king crab, Lopholithodes mandtii
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34348  

Plumose anemones and Bull Kelp on British Columbia marine reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Species: Bull kelp, Plumose anemone, Metridium senile, Nereocystis luetkeana
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34352  

Copper Rockfish Sebastes caurinus with pink soft corals and reef invertebrate life, Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Species: Copper rockfish, Sebastes caurinus
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34365  

White Plumose anemones Metridium senile and Yellow Sulphur Sponge, Vancouver Island.
Species: Bread crumb sponge, Plumose anemone, Halichondria panicea, Metridium senile
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34366  

Sea Lemon, Anisodoris nobilis, Vancouver Island.
Species: Sea lemon, Anisodoris nobilis
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34367  

Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada.
Species: Bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34371  

Red Irish Lord resting amid Plumose Metridium Anemones, Browning Pass, British Columbia.
Species: Giant plumose anemone, Red irish lord, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus, Metridium farcimen
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34391  

Chiton, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 35377  

Seymour Narrows with strong tidal currents. Between Vancouver Island and Quadra Island, Seymour Narrows is about 750 meters wide and has currents reaching 15 knots. Aerial photo.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34474  

Chrome Island (foreground) and Denman Island, Hornby Island in the distance.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34475  

A male sockeye salmon, showing injuries sustained as it migrated hundreds of miles from the ocean up the Fraser River, swims upstream in the Adams River to reach the place where it will fertilize eggs laid by a female in the rocks. It will die soon after spawning.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26162