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[Rodney]

How many freshwater fish species do we have in British Columbia? How many of them are endemic, and how many are introduced? On Monday night, I will be releasing a video on diversity of freshwater fishes in British Columbia. This is a 50 minute long conversation with my good friend Dr Eric Taylor, who is a fish researcher at the University of British Columbia and a curator at Beaty Biodiversity Museum.

If you are fascinated by fish, then you don't want to miss this one as it is jam packed with all kinds of interesting information about  both the fish we catch in this province as well as the ones we don't usually hear about. The video will premiere at Monday April 5th at 8:00pm pst, I look forward to be in the live chat with you all! 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JweMmuS2jb0

BTW, how many species do you recognize in this photo?

[Dave]

"BTW, how many species do you recognize in this photo?"
All of them but need a better shot of the sculpin, lol!
I'm looking forward to this one, thanks Rodney.

[Rodney]

Thanks Dave. This was very enjoyable to do, always get excited talking about fish. I just added the link to the video in the original post for when it goes live on Monday.

The entire presentation will be broken up into a few segments - Endemic freshwater fish species in BC, what is a fish species, importance of genetic diversity for Pacific salmon, examples of unique freshwater fish species in BC, invasive/introduced species and their impacts, critical freshwater habitat.

[RalphH]

"BTW, how many species do you recognize in this photo?"
All of them but need a better shot of the sculpin, lol!
I'm looking forward to this one, thanks Rodney.

you mean just sculpin isn't enough?

[clarki]

I look forward to it! A great pandemic distraction

[hammer]

I think I got them all...
The only one I am doubting is bottom middle....red side shiner?

[RalphH]

Ok here we go from top left by row

pea mouth chub, kokanee, Dolly Varden (or bull trout, not sure)

coho, steelhead, staghorn scuplin

pike minnow, pink salmon, salish sucker (I've never seen one)

rainbow trout, red sided shiner, lake white fish.

I likely missed a couple but they are close misses?

[hammer]

Ralph
I concur....the only amendment would be white sucker

[Dave]

Pretty sure that's a Largescale sucker and a Rocky Mountain whitefish.  I can't identify the sculpin by that picture though.

[RalphH]

size alone would suggest it's not a RMWF. That also looks like a lake. Now I know RMWF are found in lakes - I have even caught them  in lakes like Kootenay however I thought perhaps it was a fish Kitty caught on one of the Yukon filming expeditions. They are present in the Arctic drainages but not the Pacific ( except as introduced)

The sucker was a guess.

[Rodney]

That's a mountain whitefish actually. It was caught at Mamit Lake by Merritt. I thought it was a lake whitefish at first too. The other is a largescale sucker. The sculpin is a Pacific staghorn sculpin.

Here is another set, this time non-natives.

[clarki]

Not to be "that guy", but is a Pacific staghorn sculpin considered to be a freshwater fish?

I wouldn't consider their brackish estuarine habitat to be freshwater...

[Rodney]

Why do you have to be like that............ lol..

I guess I should say that a small portion of this video looks at brackish/estuary waters too so I just unintentionally included the staghorn sculpin in there.

[hammer]

Bottom right, tench

[clarki]

Why do you have to be like that............ lol..

It's a gift