Spotting Giant Sea Bass

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Water depth: 45.0 meters

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Identified as: GSB329

Matched by: Unmatched first encounter

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Number: ad924799-56c8-4398-981b-1d06adae9923

Date created:	2019-10-26
Date last edited:	2020-02-04

Workflow state: approved

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Managing researcher:

Conner Jainese

Affiliation: Giant Sea Bass Researcher, Love Lab, UCSB

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Taxonomy Stereolepis gigas

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Status: alive

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Noticeable scarring: left operculum scar

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Behavior: circling, aggregation,

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Life stage: adult

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Additional comments:
7/2/2012
Goat Harbor
Viz: Milky 20
Max depth: 69'
Temps: 65F
Six GSBs at Goat Harbor hung out with us
in the 45' range an entire hour. After awhile, I saw a dust cloud in the
sand and got a couple shots of a foraging bat ray before it flew away. Then
I found an angel shark! Wow! What a great first dive!! The only crummy part
was the viz but even that wasn't that bad. We could see all 6 GSBs at once
and they just kept circling around us. Some of them are more friendly than
others with the cameras. One very darkly colored GSB was hanging on the sand
and when I slowly approached it but was still at least 10’ away, it let out
2 or 3 barks and bolted away. I didn't think the barks were directed at me
because the fish was looking the other direction but Michelle says that may
have been a warning to me to back off. It was cool behavior to observe!
Another cool moment was when Michelle was taking pix of the angel shark and
I saw a GSB just behind her, skimming the sand as if it was trying to
scratch an itch. It was a funny sight for such a big fish.

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7/2/2012
 Goat Harbor
 Viz: Milky 20
 Max depth: 69'
 Temps: 65F
 Six GSBs at Goat Harbor hung out with us
 in the 45' range an entire hour. After awhile, I saw a dust cloud in the
 sand and got a couple shots of a foraging bat ray before it flew away. Then
 I found an angel shark! Wow! What a great first dive!! The only crummy part
 was the viz but even that wasn't that bad. We could see all 6 GSBs at once
 and they just kept circling around us. Some of them are more friendly than
 others with the cameras. One very darkly colored GSB was hanging on the sand
 and when I slowly approached it but was still at least 10’ away, it let out
 2 or 3 barks and bolted away. I didn't think the barks were directed at me
 because the fish was looking the other direction but Michelle says that may
 have been a warning to me to back off. It was cool behavior to observe!
 Another cool moment was when Michelle was taking pix of the angel shark and
 I saw a GSB just behind her, skimming the sand as if it was trying to
 scratch an itch. It was a funny sight for such a big fish.

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