Summer camp 4--1997
(part 4)

 

Location: Middle of Cowichan Bay

Length of line out: 20 M.

Duration of haul: 2 min.

Centre number: 102/97

Date: Aug. 8,1997

Time : 0:900 P.S.T

Friday Aug.8

Today we went out in the boat

and used two different kinds of nets

to catch different kinds of drifting

plankton like Phytoplankton and zoo

plancton zoo plancton is animal

plankon like the crab larvae and the

comb jelly.

After we caught the plankton we

brought them back to the

lab and identified them with

microscopes finding

the crab larvae, the comb jelly, and

the Copepods. The comb jellys

were the most common plancton we

found.

Table of findings

Species Number Species Number
Diatoms
Dinoflagellattes
Comb Jelly
Jellyfish
Colonial Jellyfhish
Brittle Star Larva
Snail Larva
Planktonic Snails
Clam Larva
Sea Urchin Larva
Arrow Worm
Juvenile Octopus
Planktonic Worm
Common
Few
Common
Few
None
One
None
Few
Few
None
None
None
None
Segmented Worm Larva
Sea Tadpole
Fish Larvae
Barnacle Larvae
Copepod Larvae
Water Fleas
Copepods
Planktonic Side Swimmers
Crab Larvae
Sharip Larvae
Possum Shrip
Common

Few
None
Few
Common
None
Common
None

Common
None
Few

   

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