Monitoring
The western set of reef balls is literally covered with Sunflower Stars and Coon Stripe shrimp. The middle and eastern sets have quite a few Sculpin laying eggs on them. Down by the western reef havens is a Widow rockfish and a Puget Sound rockfish.
I've been diving Alaska since 1989.The reefballs have brough in all sorts of rockfish I haven't seen in years. Coppers.Duskys,Widows,more Quillbacks & Black rockfish. Lots of Lingcod have moved on to the new reef. My dive on 9/07/06 I saw for the first time Lightbulb tunicates attached to the reefballs. Octopus have been moving on & off the reef. I look forward to posting more about one of the farthest north artificial reefs in the USA.
Day 1: "There were two sunstars ... already glommed onto the structure, just checking them out I'm sure. And there were a couple of copper rockfish swimming among them," said Brian Lance, a federal fisheries biologist.
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