Harbour Seal
HABITAT:
Harbour seals live in coastal waters and on rocky shores.
DIET:
Harbour seals are opportunistic feeders. They eat flounder, sculpin, hake, cod, herring, octopus, and squid.
PREDATORS:
Transient Killer Whales
Chinook Salmon
HABITAT:
Freshwater streams and estuaries provide important habitat for chinook salmon
DIET:
Chinook salmon feed on terrestrial and aquatic insects, amphipods, and other crustaceans while young, and primarily on other fish when older
PREDATORS:
Resident Killer Whales
Giant Pacific Octopus
HABITAT:
Giant Pacific octopus live in areas between the low-tide line to depths of 502 metres.
DIET:
Giant Pacific octopus eat rockfish, herring, crab, snails, and clams.
PREDATORS:
Seals, sea lions, and whales are predators to Giant Pacific octopus.
Puget Sound King Crab
HABITAT:
Puget Sound king crabs live in rock outcrops in strong currents.
DIET:
King crabs eat eeastars, other echinoderms and sea anemones.
River Otter
HABITAT:
River otters live in coastal waters and on rocky shores.
DIET:
River otters are opportunitistic feeders and prey on a variety of aquatic and terrestrial animals, including perch, sculpin, flatfish, crayfish, mussels, frogs, as well as diving birds.
PREDATORS:
River otters often escape predation -- birds of prey, coyotes and other large animals -- through their agility in the water and on land.
Steller Sea Lion
HABITAT:
Haulout on rocky shorelines
DIET:
Carnivores - they feed on fish including herring, pollock, flounder, Pacific cod, salmon, rockfish, sculpins, and invertebrates such as octopus and squid
PREDATORS:
Killer Whales
