Ling-topia

While doing a bit of research (read daydreaming) about pacific halibut the other day I ran across this video. Had to share it with the group.

https://youtu.be/i2rSP5kdsLU?t=330

At 5:30 in the video the ling extravaganza begins. I guess this must be a spawning aggregation, but holy hell I never dreamed there could be so many ling on one rock. They are literally stacked like cord wood in places. Also I love the little china rockfish chasing the laser at 6:28, like a sea cat. Neat to see what is going on underwater on a PNW reef.

That is a really cool video!

I'm hoping that's what our Marine Reserves look like now.

That is a serious lot of Lingcod!

8:55 - 9:10 - holy crap! 

Definitely not how I pictured them holding below the surface! Definitely a cool video

It was the same 3 lingcod, they just kept going past the camera 5,283 times!

Video said the two red dots were 20cm apart. That meant those weren’t baby lingcod either.

I thought lings were territorial.  Thanks for the share!

Very cool.  Interesting how they seem to congregate by similar size.  I have seen the same with other schooling fish, and i guess i never thought of lings as schooling fish! 

Norm