Forage Fish
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Forage fish generally refers to several species of primary consumer schooling fish that connect zooplankton communities to the birds, marine mammals, and salmon that we tend to value. The most abundant forage fish are:
- Pacific Herring pacific herring which have recurring spawning areas and populations, and lay eggs on Eelgrass and other submerged aquatic vegetation.
- Sandlance and Smelt which
Forage Fish Documents and Pages
- File:Harper & Ward 2001 beach spawning fish and shorezone types.pdf
- File:Reeves et al 2002 shorezone and beach spawning fish presentation.pdf
- Beach Forage Fish Spawning
- File:Krueger et al 2010 sea level rise on forage fish spawning.pdf
- Liedtke et al 2013
- File:Penttila 2001 shading and surf smelt egg survival.pdf
- Category:Beach forage fish spawning
- File:NOSC 2005 intertidal forage fish spawning sites Jefferson Kitsap Mason counties.pdf
- File:Friends of San Juans 2004 forage fish restoration and protection.pdf
- Beach Food Webs and Biodiversity
- File:Stick et al 2014 herring stock status 2012.pdf
- File:Gustafson et al 2006 cherry point herring status.pdf
- Vines et al 2000 creosote and herring spawn
- Carls et al 1999 herring PAH exposure effects
- Pacific herring
- File:Beamer et al 2007 fish assemblage greater skagit delta.pdf
- File:Hughes et al 2014 nursery functions of estuaries.pdf
- File:Pentilla 2007 forage fish marine puget sound.pdf