Our study is the first to collect data documenting biomass of small pelagic fishes and jellyfish throughout Puget Sound; sampling was conducted opportunistically as part of a juvenile salmon survey of daytime monthly surface trawls at 52 sites during May鈥揂ugust 2003. Biomass composition differed ...
Invasive species Invertebrates Jellyfish Kelp Killer whales Land cover conversion Mammals Marine birds Marine debris Marine habitat Marine heat waves Marine Protected Areas Marine Waters Overview Modeling Monitoring National Estuary Program Nearshore habitat ...
Why are there so many jellyfish in Puget Sound? These increases in jellyfish could bethe result of changing water conditionsand/or coincide with warmer conditions caused by a persistent patch of warm water, known informally as "the Blob," that came in from the Pacific Ocean in 2014 and dro...
Forage Fish, Jellyfish, Plankton, and Microbes Across Puget Sound—Has It Always Been This Way?S. Naman