ocean conditions and salmon

[Threemuch]

Blue Green? Frequently, fish feed on pelagic crabs, AKA tuna crabs, but I think these crabs mostly live down south near baja, and they are definitely red. These are crabs that never touch down, just swim around in blue water and get eaten by tuna.

What you saw might have been larvae for dungeoness or some other local crab, or maybe some other kind of free swiming crab?

http://www.bajadestinations.com/fishid/crabpelagicred/gordRedCrabs.jpg

Could it just have been krill?

http://www.ecoscope.com/krill.jpg

[SSPey]

for some interesting reading about ocean conditions that affect salmon, follow this link:

ocean conditions (http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2001/Aug01/cohomojo.htm)

[Pilar]

Maybe this is what I saw in the stomachs of some Rockpile Coho salmon earlier this summer. On one particular day, every fish was packed with hundreds of translucent blue-green spidery critters. They could have been crab larvae or copepods? About 1/2" across and every fish was full of them.

Does anyone know what this type of Salmon feed is?

BTW nice link. I suspect all sorts of patterns will emerge in Weather, Ocean and other myteries. Once they can study the tremendous amounts of information coming in.

Bottom line is that the Ocean is happy lately. Just ask any fisher, they'll tell you, no satellite needed.