Short clips of various fish found during a dive on the outter south jetty of Yaquina Bay (Newport, Oregon) on March 11, 2012. 7 fish, mix of sculpins and rockfish. 1 - Buffalo Sculpin. Snubbed nose, a ridge line of rough scales just under the dorsal fin on each side and sometimes a spine is visible pointing back from the gill cover. When the Buffalo Sculpin is being attacked it erects these spines to make a painful meal of itself. With the spines erected up, the snub nose and brown color it looks like a buffalo. 2 - Red Irish Lord. The thick stripe of rough scales is the big tell here. They are like a racetrack up each side and connect in front of the dorsal fin. Then there is the mottled red/grey color, lots o' fins and big head. It is in the sculpin family so big head, big mouth, little body. 3 - juvenile Canary Rockfish. It looks like a young rockfish and the large black spot on the dorsal fin points to it being a young Canary. 4 - Blue Rockfish. Right away it looks like ! a rockfish, but which one? Grey-ish, but lacks the black area under the dorsal fin so it isn't a Black Rockfish. Look closer and see some dark lines slanting back from the eyes like it is crying (it is sad/blue). It is a Blue Rockfish. There is also a flash of the stripes on its forehead, but just a flash in this video. Further, there are two types of Blue Rockfish (is this settled yet?) and this looks like the Blotched-Sided variety (as opposed to the Blue-Sided). 5 - Cabezon. The largest of the
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