Megafaunal Invertebrates and Fishery Habitat Studies
on Pacific Continental Shelves


Location of the study area, Heceta bank, off the central Oregon Coast.

High-resolution images of Heceta Bank derived from a Simrad EM300 multibeam echosounder
survey in 1998 in relation to submersible transects conducted on the Bank in 1988-1990.

The research submersible, Delta, used during the 1988-1990 surveys and in the 2000 resurvey.

Tiger (Sebastes nigrocinctus) and yelloweye (Sebastes ruberrimus) rockfish at
Stonewall Bank at 150 foot depths in 1991.

The basket star Gorgonocephalus eucinemis on Heceta Bank