Fish and invertebrate sounds of the Pacific Northwest

A place to think collectively about the potential sources of biological sounds heard on the Salish Sea hydrophone network.

Soniferous Fish of the Pacific Northwest

Let's try to build a list by cross-referencing web and peer-reviewed literature with lists of species that are common to the Salish Sea and vicinity.

• reef.org list of common west-coast fish
• reef.org list of common west-coast invertebrates

Then we can rank it by potential soniferous-ness (most-likely to be heard on the hydrophone network is first on page):

Midshipman Some males emit sound to attract gravid females. The hum is centered on 100Hz.

• Story re Cornell research on WA coast

Garibaldi I've read somewhere that folks hear them munching on stuff (coral?).

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