. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. FISHES AND DRIFTING KELP 293 more dispersed. They were distributed vertically from -within or near the kelp eaiio]iy to the limit of visibility (7 to 10 m). Different species occupied ditt'erent positions in this ran^'o and penei-ally the position occupied was correlated with the size and body coloration of the < ^ '^4 Hn FIGURE 3—An aggregation of holfmoon, Medialuna californiens'is, feeding on a chain of pelagic tunicat
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. FISHES AND DRIFTING KELP 293 more dispersed. They were distributed vertically from -within or near the kelp eaiio]iy to the limit of visibility (7 to 10 m). Different species occupied ditt'erent positions in this ran^'o and penei-ally the position occupied was correlated with the size and body coloration of the < ^ '^4 Hn FIGURE 3—An aggregation of holfmoon, Medialuna californiens'is, feeding on a chain of pelagic tunicates, Salpa sp. The distribution of the fishes fell into tliree overlapping zones. Zone I fishes remained Avithin a few centimeters of the kelp or within the canopy. These included all the species of rockfish, giant kelpfish. juve- nile opaleye, clingfish, kelp pipefish, kelp bass, Paralahrax clafJnritKS, kelp perch, Brachyisfius frcnatus, cabezon, Scorpacnicliihys niarmo- ratus, and bay blenny, Hypsohlennius gentilis (Figure 4). These fishes, with the exception of opaleye, were dark brown, orange brown, or had a dark barred pattern. They remained near the seaweed virtually all the time and did not stray from it horizontally or vertically. Zone TI fishes remained from .75 m to 8 m from the kelp canopy. Fish in this zone were larger than the ones in Zone I (see Table 1 for size ranges of species) and made the greatest contribution enmass to the typical community. Species occupying this zone included adult and juvenile halfmoon, juvenile yellowtail, sablefish, jack mackerel, and blacksmith (Figure 5). Among these species jack mackerel ranged the farthest from the kelp and occasionally were beyond visual range. Halfmoon and opaleye remained closer to the kelp and nearly always were in view. Species in this zone had pelagic coloration, dark above, silvery below^ except for blacksmith which occupied a position somewhat inter-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanne
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