TJN -
The Puget Sound rockfish is one of the 28 species of rockfish found in PUget Sound. It is a small rockfish that reaches maturity in just a couple years, maximum size is something like 7 inches. They are abundant in North Sound and provide forage for a number of fish - I have seen them in the stomachs of Chinook and ling cod and the literature claims they are also important forage for the larger species of rockfish.

Earlier in this discussion a couple of us speculated that the seals may be eating instead of herring. The fact that there are old and larger otoliths in the seals scats argue that they eating at some rockfish other than Puget Sound rockfish.

Sorry about the confusion; I was headed out the door for some waterfowl hunting.

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Curt