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General => Fish Talk => Topic started by: bsteves on May 11, 2006, 04:17:38 PM

Title: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: bsteves on May 11, 2006, 04:17:38 PM
Found this quiz as well on the reef.org site.  This time it's for fish of the Pacific Northwest which seems to be a better match for NorCal.

Enjoy...
http://www.reef.org/quiz/cgi-bin/quiz.cgi?file=pnwquiz_txt

Brian

Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: mooch on May 11, 2006, 04:26:52 PM
13 out of 15  :smt038
Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: Potato_River on May 11, 2006, 04:59:38 PM
Getting better.  11.
everything I missed was either a sculpin or warbonnet.

Stuart
Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: Bill on May 11, 2006, 10:32:43 PM
10/15 for me, I had never heard of a warbonnet before. Still missed those darn perch as well!!
Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: Seabreeze on May 12, 2006, 03:37:04 PM
But keep taking it.  Eventually you will get a set you can ID 100%......... :smt004
Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: ex-kayaker on May 12, 2006, 04:38:53 PM
Another 12.....at least I'm not getting any worse  :smt001
Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: promethean_spark on May 12, 2006, 05:13:22 PM
The black rockfish is unfair, in the photo the eye looks to be well behind the end of the mouth...   :smt013  The B&Y rockfish looks much like a china in that photo, I had to look at it for a while to decide that the nike swoosh wasn't good enough to qualify it to be a china.  Most B&Y have more random markings.

That site is more for scuba folk than fisher folk.  They could've really screwed us on the flatflish other than halibut and starry flounder as well as the warbonnets, wrasses and kelpfish.  ;)
Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: Seabreeze on May 12, 2006, 05:40:18 PM
I agree.  That black's mouth is not behind the eye................ :smt013
Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: craigh on May 12, 2006, 08:44:35 PM
 :oops:  47%     7 out of 15 time to hit the books.

Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: ex-kayaker on May 12, 2006, 09:40:28 PM
I had to check the dorsal on the black, only way I wa able tell the difference.


I think this one was unfair

(http://www.reef.org/images/species/pac/033.jpg)

Who got this one correct?
Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: Seabreeze on May 14, 2006, 06:04:28 PM
I got it right the second time it came up in the quiz......... :smt005
Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: Seabreeze on May 15, 2006, 10:18:21 AM
I had never seen a white spotted greenling before.  It's not listed on Love's site but here is another picture I found.

http://www.seaotter.com/marine/research/hexagrammos/stelleri/html/stelleri.jpg.html
Title: Re: Fish Quiz # 2 Pacific Northwest Fishes
Post by: InSeine on May 15, 2006, 11:08:51 PM
ok 13/15, but again the pictures suck