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Clockwise from top left: Harbor seal (
Phoca vitulina
); vermilion rockfish (
Sebastes miniatus
) and fish-
eating sea anemone (
Urticina piscivora
) with copper rockfish (
Sebastes caurinus
) in the background; black
rockfish (
Sebastes melanops
) and bull kelp (
Nereocystis luetkeana
); decorated warbonnet (
Chirolophis
decoratus
); plumose sea anemones (
Metridium farcimen
) in the wheelhouse of the HMCS
Saskatchewan
,
a 366-foot destroyer sunk off the coast of Nanaimo; spiny pink scallop (
Chlamys hastata
) (or smooth pink
scallop [
Chlamys rubida
]) and green sea urchins (
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
); bluntnose sixgill
shark (
Hexanchus griseus
); giant Pacific octopus (
Enteroctopus dofleini
)