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The Coastline of the Metchosin District, Southern Vancouver Island

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Monthly Archives: January 2021

Gasterosteus aculeatus: Threespine Stickleback

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Garry Fletcher

submitted to iNaturalist: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/88785677

These are very abundant in Gooch Creek which runs onto Taylor Beach

 

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Gasterosteidae
Genus: Gasterosteus
Species: G. aculeatus

Posted in Biodiversity, Fish, species

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  • Information and Issues of the Coastline of Metchosin on Southern Vancouver Island
  • 19th Century Victoria waterfront
  • 2. Albert Head to Clover Point Segment
  • A: Becher Bay to Whirl Bay
  • Business Plan
  • Clover Point to 10 mile Point Segment
  • Coastal Chart Segment Becher Bay to Parry Bay
  • Coastal Jurisdiction
  • Contact Information: Garry Fletcher
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  • Environment of our shoreline
    • Coastal Metchosin in 8 sections
    • Biodiversity of the Metchosin Coastline
      • Birds of Coastal Metchosin
        • Seabird Fall Census on Taylor Beach
      • Coastal Terrestrial Plants in Metchosin.
      • Marine Mammals of Coastal Metchosin
      • Taxonomy and Species Gallery of Coastal Metchosin
    • Coastal Ecosphere Resources
    • Geology of the Metchosin Coastline
    • The Metchosin Shore from Beecher Bay to Albert Head
    • Underwater
  • Sector 8: Albert Head, Tower Point, WIttys Lagoon,
  • The Metchosin Coastal website.
    • Coastal Development Issues in Metchosin
      • Anthropogenic (human-caused) Ecosystem Modification
    • Metchosin Coastal Ecosystems

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  • abiotic factors
  • acidification
  • Ammodytes hexapterus
  • anthropogenic
  • beach fires
  • Bentinck Island
  • Bonapartes gull
  • Coastal erosion
  • CRD
  • DND blasting
  • Echinodermata
  • ecosystem
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  • education
  • elephant seal
  • feeder bluff
  • fisheries
  • Integrated ecosystems
  • introduced species
  • loon
  • Mollusca
  • nudibranch
  • overharvesting
  • Pedder Bay
  • pH
  • plankton
  • purple martin
  • race rocks
  • resource management
  • riparian
  • sandlance
  • sea grass
  • seawalls
  • sensitive ecosystems
  • species list
  • succession
  • sustainability
  • Symbiotic
  • Taylor Beach
  • trees
  • Veronica americana
  • weirs beach
  • Witty's lagoon
  • Wittys beach
  • Wolf Bauer
The MetchosinCoastal website was originally created to represent the contiguous ecosystems of the Race Rocks Ecological Reserve/Marine Protected Area and for the use of the Green Blue Spaces sub committee of the Metchosin Environmental Advisory Select Committee (MEASC ) Copyright: G.Fletcher 2013 ( garryf ( use at) gmail.com)
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