Shoreline: Taken by anglers fishing in rocky areas in central and northern California.īoats: An inshore species rarely take from boats.īait and Tackle :Wolf-eels will hit almost any bait but I’ve seen them caught most often on shrimp, small crabs, mussels, abalone or on anchovy. Best bets: Port San Luis Pier, Cayucos Pier, Santa Cruz Wharf, Fort Baker Pier, Point Arena Pier, Trinidad Pier, and Citizens Dock in Crescent City. Piers : Not common at any pier but a few are taken every year from piers in central and northern California that are located near rocks or reefs. Found in deeper water south of Point Conception, in shallow water near rocks and kelp north of Point Conception. Habitat : Found in intertidal waters to a depth of 1,036 feet. Uncommon but not rare south of Point Conception. Common from Central California to Gulf of Alaska. Also reported from the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk. Range: Northern Baja California, to Gulf of Alaska, southeastern Bering Sea to Cape Menshikof, west along the Aleutians Islands to the Krenitzen Islands. Pier-caught wolf-eels are rarely more than 2-3 feet long. Size : To 79.9 inches although there are rumors of eight-foot wolf-eels. Related to the blennies it is not an eel. Their coloring is green to gray with round dark spots on the dorsal fins and body. Identification :The body is long and eel-shaped the mouth is large and filled with large, canine-like, teeth.
Called doctorfish in Alaska, lo’l, lo’ox, or st’aaxaam in British Columbia. Specie s: Anarrhichthys ocellatus (Ayres, 1855) from the Greek word anar-hichas (an ancient name for a fish which resembled this species) and the Latin word ocellatus (eye-like spots).Īlternate Names :Moray eel. Picture courtesy Outdoor Writers Association of California Probably More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast. ^ Beamish, RJ McFarlane, GA Benson, A (2006).Wolf Eel at the Wayback Machine (archived July 20, 2011) Marine Species with Aquaculture Potential. ^ a b c d "Wolf-eel, Reefs & Pilings, Fishes, Anarrhichthys ocellatus at the Monterey Bay Aquarium".^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds.^ a b c d e f Froese, Rainer Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016)."Anarrhichthys ocellatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021". My dive buddy Tim, who just happens to have Got anything to eat, so he goes over to see He tries my arm to see how it tastes, butĭrysuits apparently aren't very good eating.īefore long, he gets the idea that I haven't This fish has been fed quite a bit, and he's Is incredible! I'm beginning to think maybe Me the Pacific ones were friendly, but this He comes up to closely investigate my lens. Soon, I turn back to observe the big male,Īnd he starts coming right at me! He's coming Wolffish, but they appear just as docile. Nearby, a younger one, with darker coloration,Īlso curious what I'm up to, but not aboutīoth have prominent teeth, just like the Atlantic
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