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Baeria Rocks Ecological Reserve Warden Report 2006
Volunteer Warden, Anne Stewart, of the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, BC, V0R1B0 Did this report for 2005-2006on the
Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre Volunteer
Biodiversity Monitoring
Monitoring Activities
Except for one visit made in collaboration with BC Parks personnel (described below as site visit May 31, 2006), biodiversity monitoring activities at the Baeria Rocks Ecological Reserve have been limited to boat visits where bird and mammal surveys were done from the vessel. Counts were made on birds and mammals inside the 20m contour line and noted where outside but adjacent.
Counts results are as follows:
Birds and Mammals
August 15, 2005 11:00 AM
Running time 30 minutes in Barkley Star (x 2)
North Island
Birds
Gulls (spp) 250-300
Pelagic cormorant 22
Common Murre 14
Black Oyster-catcher 6
Harlequin Duck 6
Mammals
Harbour Seal 9
Harbour Porpoise 5 (adjacent to Eco Reserve in Imperial Eagle Channel)
South Island
Birds
Gulls (spp) 200
Pelagic cormorant ~200
Brandt’s Cormorant 20
Common Murre 2
Cassin’s Auklet 1
Surf Scoter and White wing scoter ~150 (sitting on ree on the north side of south islet)
Mammals
Harbour Seal
*No traps, fishing gear or boats noted within a one kilometer radius.
Birds
February 1, 2006 11:00 AM
Running time 30 minutes in Barkley Star (x 2)
North Island
Birds
Gulls 11
Pelagic Cormorant 2
Common Murre 3
Harlequin Duck 4
South Island
Gulls 3
Pelagic Cormorants 2
Common Murre 4
Site visit May 31, 2006
Barkley Star running time 40 minutes
The following account of the Baeria Rocks Ecological Reserve site visit was taken from the June edition of the Bamfield newspaper “The Beacon”.
Volunteers Help Marine Protected Areas
Baeria Rocks Ecological Reserve is a little known marine protected area (MPA) right here in Barkley Sound. Although the Reserve was initially set up as a jurisdictional challenge by the province, the primary role of the reserve is to protect nesting seabirds and to preserve rich inter-tidal and sub-tidal communities.
Anne Stewart is the new “volunteer ecological reserve warden” for Baeria Rocks and is trying to help raise awareness about the reserve and promote sustainable and sensitively appropriate research.
Since very little research has been done in the reserve to date, a logical starting place was to do some basic inventory work, and at the end of May, an excursion of volunteers from the Bamfield Marine Science Centre met BC Parks personnel from Tofino at the Reserve and began work after a hiatus of nearly thirty years.
Tom Bird and his team of divers did biodiversity surveys below water and an inter-tidal team did preliminary biodiversity inventory work on shore. The BC Parks people erected signs and surveyed Black-Oyster Catcher nests. A big thank you to all of the BMSC volunteers, it would not have been possible without you.
Please note that the Friends of Ecological Reserves has some limited scholarship funding for graduate student research in Ecological Reserves and to date there has been little done in Marine Ecological Reserves.
The following description was taken from field notes by both the divers and by Anne Stewart on shore with top-side photographs taken by Siobhan Gray.
Francis Bruhwiler and Carl Wilson of BC Parks installed signage on the south islet. Erica McClaren conducted a Black Oystercatcher nest inventory on the south islet separated by a surge channel from the high part where the light is and signage was being installed. Anne and Siobhan got off on the islet with Erica and did an inventory of the intertidal and birds.
Anne’s biodiversity inventory notes (visual dominants) (intertidal South Islet)
Low tide zone
Haliclona sp
Halichondria sp.
Ophlitaspongia sp.
Anthopleura xanthogrammica
Pollicipes polymerus
Pisaster ochraceus
Semibalanus cariosus
Alaria marginata ( at waters edge)
Laminaria setchellii (mixed in with A. marginata on south side)
Prionitis lanceolata
Condrocanthus exasperata
Egregia menziezii
Leathesia difformis
Corallina sp
Nemalion elminthoides
Three species of unidentified red algae (tiny branch tufts (less that 1 cm in length, collected for identification)
Mid tide zone
Cladophora sp.
Balanus glandula
Anthopleura elegantissima
Fucus sp
Porphyra spp
Ulva spp
Mastocarpus
Mazaella
High tide zone (about 2 meters above the Balanus glandula line)
Ligia occidentalis
Neomolgus littoralis
Verrucaria sp.
Caloplaca sp.
Physcia sp.
Prasiola sp.
Note: Lasthenia minor was seen blooming near the navigational light.
Birds and mammals noted off and around the south islets.
Pelagic Cormorant 1 (flying past)
Brandt’s Cormorant 8
Harlequin Duck 4 (2 male;2 female)
Black Oyster Catcher 6
Thayer’s gull 1
Glaucous Wing Gull 78
Pigeon Guillemot 2
California Sea Lion 1
5 unidentified ducks were seen between the north and south islets.
On the south islet, abundant gooseneck barnacle plates and Pisaster ossicles in evidence of bird predation. Several bird bones also found (eagle predation?).
Note one prawn fisherman seen tending traps just outside reserve.
Two biodiversity inventory dives were made by the volunteer divers. The first was done starting at the west point of the north islet and swimming northeast. Divers went into the water at approximately 10 meters at Latitude 48o 57.288’North; Longitude 125 o 09.299’West. Maximum depth was 20 meters although much of the dives were spent considerably shallower looking at abalone abundance. There were two objectives to the dives;
1) to specifically look at the abundance of abalone Haliotis kamstchatkana, a federally listed Threatened Species and 2) to do a precursory general inventory of sub-tidal biodiversity within the Ecological Reserve.
The second dive was done just off the south islet on the lee (northeast) side. The volunteer divers included Tom Bird, Sharon Jeffries, Jenn Provencher, Scott Toews, Stephanie Avery, Theresa Douthright, Don Levitan and Kylie Pawluk. Most of the divers did two swims and recorded species diversity and abundance as they went. The species list and abundance indicators (zero, 1, 10s, 100s, 1000s) are listed below by diver.
Baeria Islets Biodiversity Survey- Tom Bird North Islet
| Species | Abundance |
| Abalone | 10 |
| Black Eyed Goby | 10 |
| Black turban snail | Not given |
| Blood Star | 10 |
| Brooding anemone | 10 |
| Burrowing sea anemone | Not given |
| Calliostoma annulatum | 10 |
| China rockfish | 1 |
| Ctenophore – long | Not given |
| ctenopore | 10 |
| Decorator Crab | 1 |
| Desmerestia | Not given |
| Dodecaceria fewkesi | Not given |
| Feathery hydroid | 100 |
| Fishing lure | 1 |
| Fucus | 1 |
| Giant green anemone | 100 |
| Hermissenda crassicornis | 100 |
| Hermit crab (long arm) | Not given |
| Hermit crab | Not given |
| Jelly (Crazy dangly) | 10 |
| Keyhole limpet | 1 |
| Larval fish | Not given |
| Leafy hornmouth snail | Not given |
| Limpet (Pointy red) | 100 |
| Lined chiton | 10 |
| Metridium | 100 |
| Moon jelly | 1 |
| Orange colonial tunicate | Not given |
| Orange Cup coral | Not given |
| Painted geenling | 1 |
| Parastichopus californicus | Not given |
| Porcelain crab | 1 |
| Psolus chitonoides | 1 |
| Pycnopodia | 10 |
| Rainbow Seastar | 100 |
| Red and white spotted anemone | 10 |
| Red colonial tunicate | Not given |
| Red coralline algae | 100 |
| Red encrusting algea | Not given |
| Red sea urchin | +100 |
| Red turban snail | 100 |
| Rock scallop | 1 |
| Sculpin (with orange spot on back) | Not given |
| Sea Pen | 1 |
| Siphonophore | 1 |
| Smooth red tunicate | 1 |
| Solaster ? | 10 |
| Sponge (sulphur ?) | 10 |
| Spotted greenling | Not given |
| Staghorn bryozoan | 100 |
| Stalked hydroid | 1 |
| Stalked Tunicate | 1 |
| White colonial ascidian | 1 |
Baeria Islets Biodiversity Survey- Tom Bird South Islet
| Lingcod | 10 |
| Painted greenling | 10 |
| Spotted greenling | 10 |
| Purple Colonial ascidian | 10 |
| Black Rockfish | 100 |
| China rockfish | 1 |
| Feathery hydrozoan | 100 |
| Green urchin | 1 |
| Staghorn Bryozoan | 1000 |
| cup corals | 1000 |
| Pycnopodia | 100 |
| Dodececaria | 1000 |
| giant Barnacles | 10 |
| Rock Scallop | 10 |
| Lacy Bryozoan | 100 |
| Sailfin Sculpin | 1 |
| Serpulids | 1000 |
| Metridium | 100 |
| A. xanthogramica | 10 |
| Hermissenda | 100 |
| Blood star | 10 |
| Breadcrumb sponge | 10 |
| Slime dwelling tube worms | not indicated |
| Strawberry anemone | 100 |
| Encrusting hydrocoral | 10 |
| Cobalt sponge | 1 |
| Yellow zooanthids | not indicated |
| Giant Keyhole limpets | 10 |
| Sharp nose crab | 10 |
| moon jellies | 100 |
| Ctenophores | 100 |
| Linea chiton | 10 |
| Calliostoma | 100 |
| Brittle stars | 100 |
| spriral orange hydrozoans | not indicated |
| abalone | 10 |
| astrea gibberosa | 10 |
| feather duster worm | 1 |
| terebellidae | 10 |
| nucella | 10 |
| mysids | 1000 |
| white line dorid | 1 |
| mossy hydroid | 100 |
Baeria Islets Biodiversity Survey- Sharon Jeffrey 1st dive North islet
| Species | Abundance |
| Abalone | 5 |
| Acmaea mitra | 10 |
| Anthopleura | Not given |
| Astraea | 100 |
| Balanophyllia elegans | 100 |
| Black Eyed Goby | 100 |
| Bolinopsis infundibulum | Not given |
| Brittle star | +100 |
| Bryozoa | 100 |
| Cabezon | 1 |
| Coralline algae (articulated) | Not given |
| Ctenophore | Not given |
| Desmerestia | Not given |
| Didemnum | NG |
| Dirona | 1 |
| Dodecaceria concharum | +100 |
| Encrusting coralline algae | Not given |
| Feathery hydroid | Not given |
| Giant barnacle | 10 |
| Hairy tunicate | 10 |
| Henricia lerioscula | 2 |
| Hermissenda crassicornus | 100 |
| Hermit (?) | 1 |
| Hermit crab (white claw) | +100 |
| Hexagrammus decagrammus | 100 |
| Jordania zonope | 10 |
| Lace bryozoan | 10 |
| Mediaster aequalis | 10 |
| Mysids | 100 |
| Myxicola | lots |
| Nudibranch (white and yellow) | 3 |
| Ophiodon elongatus | 1 |
| Orthasterius Koehleri | 10 |
| Pachycerianthus fimbriatus | 10 |
| Pagarus armatus | 1 |
| Pagarus gilli ? | +100 |
| Parapagurodes hartae | 10 |
| Parastichopus californicus | +100 |
| Plumose Anemone | 10 |
| Psolus sp | 1 |
| Ptilsarcus gurneyi | 10 |
| Purple banded hermit crab | 10 |
| Pycnopodia | 100 |
| Rainbow Seastar | 1 |
| Red sea urchin | +100 |
| Red tunicate | 10 |
| Rose Star | 2 |
| Scallop | 1 |
| Sebastes caulinus | 2 |
| Sebastes maliger | 1 |
| Stalked jelly | Not given |
| Stalked tunicate | 1 |
| Sunstar | Not given |
| Tan cup coral | 2 |
| Tonicella lineata | 100 |
| Tube worm (long) | +100 |
| Urticina | 100 |
| Urticina columbiana | 3 |
| Urticina lofoteris | 100 |
| White compound tunicate | 1 |
| White striped anemone | Not given |
| Yellow boring sponge | 10 |
Baeria Islets Biodiversity Survey- Sharon Jeffery 2nd Dive South islet
| Species | Abundance |
| Abalone | NG |
| Anthopluera xanthogrammica | NG |
| Black rockfish | +100 |
| Blood Star | Not given |
| Bread crumb sponge | Not given |
| Brittle star | NG |
| Calliostoma annulatum | NG |
| China rockfish | 2 |
| Cobalt sponge | NG |
| Ctenopore | NG |
| Cup coral | Not given |
| Decorator Crab | NG |
| Dodecaceria fewkesi | Not given |
| Encrusting hydrocoral | NG |
| Feather duster worm | NG |
| Feathery hydroid | Not given |
| Giant barnacle | Not given |
| Giant keyhole limpet | NG |
| Green urchin | 1 |
| Hermissenda crassicornis | Not given |
| Hermit crabs | NG |
| Lacey bryozoan | Not given |
| Leather star | NG |
| Lemon peel nudibranch | NG |
| Lined chiton | NG |
| Ling cod | 4 |
| Metridium | NG |
| Moon jelly | NG |
| Mossy hydroid | NG |
| Mysids | NG |
| Nereocystis | NG |
| Nucella | NG |
| Orange colonial tunicate | Not given |
| Painted anemone | Not given |
| Pink mouth hydroid | NG |
| Purple colonial tunicate | Not given |
| Purple encrusting ascidian | NG |
| Pycnopodia | 3 |
| Red turban snail | NG |
| Rock scallop | Not given |
| Sculpin | NG |
| Serpulids | NG |
| Spiral hydroid | Not given |
| Spiral orange hydroid | NG |
| Spotted anemone | Not given |
| Staghorn bryozoan | Not given |
| Stalked hydroid solitary | 2 sp |
| Strawberry anemone | Not given |
| Terebellid | NG |
| Tethya californiana | NG |
| White colonial ascidian | NG |
| White margin dorid | NG |
| White striped anemone (stubby) | NG |
Baeria Islets species inventory May 31, 2006
Sharon Jeffery
Distaplia sp compound tunicate 100+
Urticina piscivora Fish-eating anemone 11-100
Mediaster aequalis Vermillian star 2-10
Crossaster papposus Rose star 2-10
Parastichopus californicus Sea cucumber 100+
Coryphopterus nicholsi Black-eyed goby 11-100
S. fransciscanus Red sea urchin 100+
Balanophyllia elegans Orange cup coral 100+
Dendronotus iris Rainbow nudibranch 1
Pachycerianthus Tube-dwelling anemone 2-10
Jordania zonope Longfin sculpin 2-10
Artedius harringtoni Sculpin
Dodecaceria concharum Cement tubeworms 100+
Serpula columbiana Calcareous tubeworm 100+
Mysids 100+
Orthasterias minimus Tubeworm hermit crab 1
Pagurus sp (hartae, hirsutiusculus, hemphilli, caurinus) Hermit crabs 100+
Pagurus armatus Wide arm hermit crab 1
Boltenia villosa Hairy tunicate 2-10
Paracyathus stearnsi Tan cup coral 2-10
Astraea gibberosa Red turban snail 100+
Tegula pulligo Brown turban snail 100+
Tonicella lineata Lined chiton 100+
Balanus nubilus Giant acorn barnacle 2-10
Cliona californiana Yellow boring sponge 11-100
Ptilosarcus gurneyi Sea pen 2-10
Metandrocarpa taylori Orange social tunicate 11-100
Didemnum carnulentum White tunicate 1
Dirona albolineata Frosted nudibranch 1
Acanthodoris hudsoni Dorid nudibranch 2-10
Hexagrammos decagrammus Kelp greenling 11-100
Urtincina lofotensis White-spotted anemone 11-100
Ophiodon elegans Ling cod 2-10
Sebastes maliger Quillback rockfish 2-10
Sebastes caurinus Copper rockfish 2-10
Hermissenda crassicornis Opalescent nudibranch 11-100
Psolus chitonoides Armoured sea cucumber 1
Phidolopora pacifica Lace bryozoaon 2-10
Acmaea mitra White-capped limpet 2-10
Haliotis kamschatkana Abalone 2-10
Epiactis lisbethae Brooding anemone (large) 2-10
Scorpaenichthys marmoratus Cabezon 1
Pycnopodia helianthoides Sunflower star 1
Henricia leviuscula Blood star 2-10
Cnemidocarpa finmarkiensis Orange tunicate 2-10
Brittle stars 100+
Crassadoma gigantea Rock scallop 1
Manania sp Stalked jelly 2-10
Myxicola infundibulum worm 11-100
Anthopleura artemesia Burrowing anemone 2-10
Metridium senile Plumose anemone 11-100
Metridium giganteum Plumose anemone 100+
Urticina columbiana Stubby rose anemone 2-10
Bolonopsis Lobed sea gooseberry 11-100
Ctenophores/sea gooseberries 11-100
Solaster stimpsoni Sunstar 1
Plumularia setacea Hydroid 2-100
Biodiversity Survey North Islet Jenn Provencher, May 31, 2006
| Species | Abundance |
| Lingcod | 10 |
| Astraea | +100 |
| Plumose Anemone | 100 |
| Kelp Greenling | 10 |
| Pycnopodia | 100 |
| Black Eyed Goby | 10 |
| Krill | +100 |
| Orange Cup coral | +100 |
| Calcareous tube worm | +100 |
| Burrowing sea anemone | 100 |
| Stalked Monterrey Tunicate | 100 |
| Opalescent Nudi | +100 |
| Sea Pen | 10 |
| Chitons | +100 |
| Vermillion Star | 10 |
| Blood Star | 10 |
| Daisy Brittle star | 100 |
| Abalone | 10 |
| Hermit crabs | +100 |
| Quillback Rockfish | 10 |
| Sculpins | 100 |
| Leafy hornmouth snail | 10 |
| Pink Anemone | 100 |
| Rose Star | 10 |
| Scaleworm | 1 |
| Cabezon | 1 |
| Swimming Scallops | 10 |
| Decorator Crabs | 100 |
| Blue top ring snail | 100 |
| Mud star | 1 |
| Starburst ascidian | +100 |
| Green urchin | 10 |
| Red sea urchin | 100 |
| Leather star | 10 |
| White spot anemone | 10 |
| Rainbow Seastar | 10 |
| Hydroids | +100 |
| Velcro Seastar | 1 |
| False ochre star | 10 |
| Shiny orange sea squirt | 10 |
| Slime worms | 100 |
| Limpets | +100 |
| Spaghetti worms | 10 |
| Slipper Limpet | 10 |
| Stalked jellyfish | 10 |
| Bryozoa | +100 |
| Nereocytis | 10 |
| Petrocelis | 100 |
| Encrusting coralline algae | +100 |
| Mazzaela | 10 |
| Desmerestia | 10 |
| Erect coralline algae | +100 |
| Green fern algae | 10 |
| Anfeltia | 10 |
| Colpemenia | 10 |
| Fucus | 100 |
| Mosshead Warbonnet | 1 |
| Bat Start | 10 |
| Ochre star | 10 |
| Peach tunicate | 10 |
| Ulva | 100 |
| Spiorbid worms | 100 |
| Dusky turban snail (tegula pulligo) | +100 |
| Tritonia festiva nudibranch | 1 |
| Copper rockfish | 10 |
| Scalyhead sculpin | 1 |
Baeria Islets Biodiversity Survey May 31st 2006 – Scott Toews -North islet
| Species | Abundance |
| Abalone | 10 |
| Black Eyed Goby | 100 |
| Cabezon | 2 |
| China Rockfish | 1 |
| Copper rockfish | 1 |
| Cucumber | 100 |
| Giant Barnacle | +100 |
| Green Urchin | 10 |
| Greenling | 100 |
| Hermissenda | 100 |
| Hermit crabs | 100 |
| Leather star | +100 |
| Lingcod | 1 |
| Mottled Star | 1 |
| Orange Cup coral | 100 |
| Plumose Anemone | +100 |
| Pycnopodia | 100 |
| Quillback Rockfish | 10 |
| Rainbow Seastar | 10 |
| Rock Scallop | 10 |
| Rose Star | 1 |
| Vermillion Rockfish | 10 |
Baeria Islets Biodiversity Survey – Theresa D. North islet
| Species | Abundance |
| Abalone | 2 |
| Black Eyed Goby | 100 |
| Cabezon | 1 |
| China Rockfish | 2 |
| Chitons | 10 |
| Copper rockfish | 1 |
| Cucumber | 100 |
| Hermit crabs | 100 |
| Hydroids | 100 |
| Kelp Greenling | 10= 5 female, 5 male |
| Leather star | 100 |
| Lingcod | Not given |
| Orange Cup coral | +100 |
| Plumose Anemone | +100 |
| Pycnopodia | 10 |
| Quillback Rockfish | 1 |
| Rainbow Seastar | 10 |
| Red sea urchin | +100 |
| Red turban snail | 100 |
Baeria Islets Biodiversity Survey – Don Levitan 1st Dive North islet
| Species | Abundance |
| Aglaophenia spp. | Not given |
| Aplidium Solidum | 1 |
| Astraea gibberosa | 100 |
| Balanophyllia elegens | 100 |
| Black eyed goby | 10 |
| Boltenia villosa | 1 |
| Botrylloides violaceus | 1 |
| Calliostoma annulatum | 1 |
| Cliona californiana | 100 |
| Cnemidocarpa finmarkiensis | 1 |
| Crassodoma gigantea | 10 |
| Cucumaria miniata | 10 |
| Dermasterias imbriceatu | 10 |
| Dodecaceria concharum | 10 |
| Epizoanthus scotinus | 10 |
| Haliotis Kamtschatkana | 1 |
| Henricia leviuscula | 10 |
| Hermissenda crassicornis | 100 |
| Hermit crab | 100 |
| Hexagrammus decagrammus | 10 |
| Hippodipslosa insculpta | 1 |
| Mediaster aequalis | 10 |
| Metrididium senile | 100 |
| Ophiodon elongatus | 1 |
| Orange encrusting sponge | Not given |
| Orthasterius koehleri | 1 |
| Pachycerianthus fimbriatus | ? +100 ( indecipherable writing ,only # left un matched to 2nd species sheet.) |
| Parastichopus californicus | 1 |
| Pisaster ochraceous | 1 |
| Pycnopodia helianthoides | 10 |
| Scorpaenichthys marmoratus | 1 |
| Solaster dawsoni | 1 |
| Solaster stimpsoni | 10 |
| Strongylocentrotus franciscanus | 100 |
| Tethya califorucina | 100 |
| Tonicella lineata | 10 |
| Urtucina crassicornis | ? |
Baeria Islets Biodiversity Survey – Don Levitan, 2nd Dive South islet
| Anthopleura xanthegramica | 1 |
| Astraea gibberosa | 100 |
| Balanophyllia elegens | 100 |
| Balanus nubilus | 10 |
| Botrylloides violaceus | 1 |
| Bugula californica | 1 |
| Calliostoma annulatum | 1 |
| Cnemidocorpa finmarkiensis | 1 |
| Crassodoma gigantea | 10 |
| Dermasterias imbriceatu | 10 |
| Didemnum carulentum | 10 |
| Dodecaceria fewkesi | 10 |
| Haliotis Kamtschatkana | 1 |
| Henricia leviuscula | 10 |
| Hermissenda crassicornis | Not given |
| Heteropora pacifica | 10 |
| Hexagrammus decagrammus | 1 |
| Hippodipslosia insculpta | 1 |
| Hydroid | 100 |
| Mediaster aequalis | 1 |
| Metondrocarpa taylori | 10 |
| Metridium senile | 100 |
| Myxicola infundibulum | 100 |
| Ophiodon elongatus | 1 |
| Orthasterius koehleri | 1 |
| Parastichopus californicus | 10 |
| Pink encrusting sponge | 10 |
| Pisaster ochraceous | 100 |
| Purple encrusting sponge | 1 |
| Pycnopodia helianthoides | Not given |
| Scorpaenichthys marmoratus | Not given |
| Sebastes melanops | 10 |
| Sebastes nebulosus | 1 |
| Slime worm | 10 |
| Solaster dawsoni | Not given |
| Strongylocentrotus franciscanus | 100 |
| Tonicella lineata | 10 |
| Urticina crassicornis | 1 |
Baeria Islets Biodiversity Survey – Kylee Pawluck North Islet
All ? represent missing abundance #’s or vague species names
Species Abundance
| Abalone | ? |
| Anisodoris Nobilis / Sea lemon nudi | 10 |
| Astraea / Red Turban | 10 |
| Big Crab ? | 1 |
| Black and yellow snail ? (perhaps: Lacuna vincta) | 1 |
| Black Tube Worm ? (perhaps:Dodecaceria fewkesi) | +100 |
| Blood Star/ Henricia | ? |
| Branching Coralline algae / Bossiela | 100 |
| Brittle star | 10 |
| Bryozoa | +100 |
| Compound Ascidian | 10 |
| Ctenophore | 10 |
| Cup Coral | +100 |
| Cucumaria miniata | ? |
| Decorator Crabs | 10 |
| Encrusting Bryozoan | ? |
| Encrusting coralline algae | ? |
| Filimentous Red tube worm | +100 |
| Fuzzy Bryozoan ( perhaps: Bugula californica) | 100 |
| Giant Anemone | ? |
| Greenling | 100 |
| Grey Star (perhaps: Luida foliolata | 1 |
| Hermit crabs | +100 |
| Larval Fish | 100 |
| Leather star/ Dermasterias | ? |
| Limpets | 100 |
| Mastocarpus corymbiferus | 100 |
| Matridium Farcimen | ? |
| Opalescent Nudibranch | +100 |
| Orange and blue fish? | 10 |
| Orange Tunicate | 10 |
| Painted Chiton/ Dendrochiton flectens | ? |
| Pisaster Brevispinus | 100 |
| Purple Sponge | 10 |
| Pycnopodia | ? |
| Red and pink crabs ? | ? |
| Rock Scallop | 1 |
| Sea Cucumber | ? |
| Serpula / Tube worms | ? |
| Slime Star | ? |
| Slime worms | 10 |
| Small fish | 10 |
| Stalked anemone | 1 |
| Stalked jellyfish | ? |
| Stalked Monterrey Tunicate | 10 |
| Whelks | ? |
| White plumose anemone/ metridium senile | 100 |
Baeria Islets Biodiversity Survey, (Stephanie ?) May 31 ‘06
| Species | Abundance |
| Lingcod | 10 |
| Astraea | +100 |
| Plumose Anemone | 100 |
| Kelp Greenling | 10 |
| Pycnopodia | 100 |
| Black Eyed Goby | 10 |
| Krill | +100 |
| Orange Cup coral | +100 |
| Calcareous tube worm | +100 |
| Burrowing sea anemone | 100 |
| Stalked Monterey Tunicate | 100 |
| Opalescent Nudi | +100 |
| Sea Pen | 10 |
| Chitons | +100 |
| Vermillion Star | 10 |
| Blood Star | 10 |
| Daisy Brittle star | 100 |
| Abalone | 10 |
| Hermit crabs | +100 |
| Quillback Rockfish | 10 |
| Sculpins | 100 |
| Leafy hornmouth snail | 10 |
| Pink Anemone | 100 |
| Rose Star | 10 |
| Scaleworm | 1 |
| Cabezon | 1 |
| Swimming Scallops | 10 |
| Decorator Crabs | 100 |
| Blue top ring snail | 100 |
| Mud star | 1 |
| Starburst ascidian | +100 |
| Green urchin | 10 |
| Red sea urchin | 100 |
| Leather star | 10 |
| White spot anemone | 10 |
| Rainbow Seastar | 10 |
| Hydroids | +100 |
| Velcro Seastar | 1 |
| False ochre star | 10 |
| Shiny orange sea squirt | 10 |
| Slime worms | 100 |
| Limpets | +100 |
| Spaghetti worms | 10 |
| Slipper Limpet | 10 |
| Stalked jellyfish | 10 |
| Bryozoa | +100 |
| Nereocytis | 10 |
| Petrocelis | 100 |
| Encrusting coralline algae | +100 |
| Mazzaela | 10 |
| Desmerestia | 10 |
| Erect coralline algae | +100 |
| Green fern algae | 10 |
| Anfeltia | 10 |
| Colpemenia | 10 |
| Fucus | 100 |
| Mosshead Warbonnet | 1 |
| Bat Star | 10 |
| Ochre star | 10 |
| Peach tunicate | 10 |
| Ulva | 100 |
| Spiorbid worms | 100 |
| Dusky turban snail (tegula pulligo) | +100 |
| Tritonia festiva nudibranch | 1 |
| Copper rockfish | 10 |
| Scalyhead sculpin | 1 |
We are going to try and do another inventory dive at Baeria Rocks this year. For this year’s report I will compile and then analyze the data from both years.
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