I’ve caught a bunch of these in my prawn traps off Galiano this year. It will be interesting to know what they are.Not sure what it was? It had sores on the front of its snout and by one of its gills. Also one eye was pointed upward, poor little fella wasn’t going to win any beauty contests but he swam back down to 200’
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One reference for eel pouts in BC waters "Family Zoarcidae - eelpouts / lycodes 231 Peden and Anderson (1978) were unable to ascribe definite northern limit on the distribution of Lycodapus dermatinus Gilbert, 1895, but presented evidence which indicated that the!species may be present in British Columbia. Any specimens of the midwater eelpoutgenus Lycodapus should be retained for careful examination." Pretty limited, but the one in the pic sure looks like an eel poutIt does look similar to some of the Eelpout's but I can't find any info on an Eelpout species that hangs out in our waters. They are said to be very wide spread around the world though. Interesting to find out if that's what it is and if so what kind of Eelpout if it is one.