Eelgrass blades with their epiphytic snails waving in the turbid Skeena River plume water.
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Eelgrass blades with their epiphytic snails waving in the turbid Skeena River plume water.
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Eelgrass is barely visible in the sediment-filled and nutrient-rich water flowing from the Skeena River over Flora Bank.
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Heavy deposits of fine sediment on blades of seaweed growing near the eelgrass bed.
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Epiphytic red algae growing in plumes from the eelgrass blades.
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Eelgrass flowers looming in the silty mist.
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Shells, eelgrass, and algae.
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Quillback rockfish hovering in the eelgrass.
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Snakelock anemone.
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Red and brown seaweed with marine "snow" - fine silt from the Skeena River.
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Eelgrass with intertwined filamentous red and green seaweed.
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Orange seapens and clam siphons in the sand at the edge of the eelgrass bed.
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Eelgrass and shells in sand.
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Sunflower seastar amongst the kelp and eelgrass.
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Short-spined seastar and and an empty butter clam shell amongst the eelgrass.
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Clam siphons and eelgrass.
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Dungeness crab.
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Eelgrass, green seaweed, and a sunflower seastar.
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Brilliantly colored sunflower seastar hiding under a kelp leaf.
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Painted anemone.
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Epiphytic red algae "decorating" the eelgrass.
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Eelgrass growing amongst cobble with a mottled star on the rocks.
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A vermillion seastar and a leather seastar on the sand between patches of eelgrass.
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A solitary giant plumone anemone at the edge of the eelgrass bed.
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Three-ribbed kelp and eelgrass growing mixed together.
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Eelgrass flattened by ocean currents.
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A mixed bed of winged kelp and eelgrass.
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Giant kelp growing in an eelgrass bed.
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A tall and lush eelgrass bed (ecotype Zostera marine latifolia).
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Short eelgrass (ecotype Zostera marina typica) growing in the intertidal regions (note the sand waves). A Dungeness crab tries to threaten the camera.