Pacific Halibut in the Ocean Ecosystem

Renee Rensmeyer - Halibut Biology

[@marcialsantiago8383]

Thank you for your research and work. Fishing for these species is a past time for my family and I. And I want it to last for many generations to come.

[@seanm1659]

Only my fish nerd friend could have found this video and shared it with me. I mean, the swaths of lingcod and anemone forests and just otherworldly. It’s like these areas and the ones I dive in can’t possibly be part of the same ocean

[@faroutmydude5965]

The amount of lincod in this area is absurd

[@lcarus42]

you mean underwater cauliflower

[@samshotgun6530]

This video is amazing, Because it shows you how often they swim up off the bottom and don't always just sit in the sand somewhere.

[@lloydchristmas1086]

While beach fishing I have caught Halibut that will strike a jig as waves are braking right on top of the jig where I would never of thought they would strike. They are ferocious hunters and will strike the surface.

[@Grrrr3FKAGrrrrGrrrrGrrrr]

This is possibly the best halibut channel on KZbin!

[@thomaskelly7780]

Almost 50 years ago I lived in Alaska. The minimum size for a keeper halibut was 32”. We fished for fun on Saturday and caught tons of lingcod but threw them all back. We just wanted a halibut. Now the halibut are rare and the cod even more overpopulated! To restore the balance of nature we need to eat more lingcod!

[@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917]

I used to eat a lot of lincgod as a kid. They look like straight up dinosaurs but they are dang tasty.

[@outdoorfreedom9778]

I do my part!!

[@lloydchristmas1086]

Lingcod are great. Halibut are being decimated by the sushi craze.

[@StonemanRocks]

I caught 2 halibut in AK one 6’ long and one 5’!

[@firefly2751]

McDonald's uses them in their fish sandwiches.

[@johnrutherford1650]

I have never seen so many lingcod. That is amazing!

[@ThePerpetualStudent]

This is cool! Felt like a kid again. Thank you for your hard R/D

[@t-bonejones3576]

The China Rockfish at 4:35 is actually a Quillback Rockfish. (Sebastes Maliger)

[@darrellcook8253]

Those lingcod stacked up like Lincoln logs..never would have guessed that they gather in such large numbers. Where I've caught them their flesh is a soft turquoise to a deep turquoise. Some are kinda greenish. All are delicious.

[@yeahokbuddy2510]

Too bad they are threatened now due to overfishing

[@ernie548]

The Lost City of Ling!

[@ApneaHunter]

I was gunna say the same thing. Definitely a quillback.

[@beconfly]

Holy Mother of Lingcod. Lingcodopolous. Did the lings make their annual pilgrimage to Lingcod Mecca? Where is this magical place?!?!?

[@travisward8319]

No kidding, right? I never realized they schooled up like that.

[@thedalillama]

That is an insane number of ling cod.

[@paulskopic5844]

Fishermen are very tight lipped about locations.

[@Elparquito]

I'd hate to be the kelp greenling that swam in to that neighborhood........

[@YouTubeDeletesComments]

Probably some protected area.

[@darylmorse]

I've dived on the west coast and never so many lingcod in one place. Crazy!

[@ryanfields4146]

very cool video! I'm pretty sure the rockfish @4:35 is a Quillback though, not a China

[@davidotness6199]

Agree. I commercial fished them and that's a quillback!

[@Noobish_Camper55]

Damn all of the good tasting fish are living on some alien planet in the ocean.

[@agent7official]

Ive been watching enough videos about the ocean that this showed up in my recommended

[@privateuser2463]

can you add the gps co-ordinates? just for scientific purpose not cuz I want a shot at those lings

[@ek9969]

Lol seriously man I couldnt believe all those lings stacked up like that

[@velvety2528]

Pretty neat how the pacific halibut basically turned its pectoral fin into a dorsal fin.

[@timothymattson3680]

That reef is infested with Lingcod . They do have egg nests , though they migrate to shallow where I’m at . You can know where they are , but the period of the bite is short each day . We’ve caught them with a few hundred salmon smolt inside as well as other Lingcod of EQUAL size , folded in half! The Halibut is a mighty foe , they will eat Octopus.

[@co1urzz]

9:40 the halibut's friends will never believe the story about the UFO

[@TinMan445]

It’s so strange that I love eating halibut, but this is the first time I’m seeing a halibut.

[@archstanton_live]

So that's where cauliflower comes from!!! Just kidding. Thanks for a fascinating trip. BTW, the columnar basalt was formed back when this part of the crust was a basaltic flood plain on land.

[@tho464]

Was this clip about halibut or lingcod?

[@xploration1437]

Why did you go all the way down there? Oh, just for the halibut.

[@karlbe8414]

Five Halibut and 1 million Lings! That is by far the most Ling cod that I have ever seen and most looked large. Wouldn't there be more Flatfish around a less rocky area?? Lingmania!

[@lloydchristmas1086]

Halibut love rocky outcrops. They can ambush out of the rocks.

[@Poland1918]

That's sooo cool

[@gnp5278]

So was this about halibut or lingcod? Seen five halibut, three hundred lingcod!

[@fishfoolishness4222]

Have to admit I was very surprised to see a halibut in those rocks.

[@christhesmith]

11 minutes of flatfish! I'm in! Just for the halibut!

[@alaskacane]

What's your coordinates? Best Ling spot ever!

[@bartncharity]

Wow! So many Ling cod down there. Is it their mating season or something?

[@sipius22]

That's a hell-of-a-butt!

[@ExopMan]

The amount of Lingcod is insane!!!

[@Bretmatic]

You still got those coordinates? For research purposes only

[@Lovemyfamily55]

What are the GPS coordinates of this location?

[@dan3nad]

hahaa thats what i was thinking

[@debunkthejunk1]

I watched this video just for the Halibut

[@nomadmarine0331]

Halibut can and do live from 200-3500 feet. Blinding fish in the depths with lasers. What fun.

[@fishhunt9874]

Very interesting. Please go back and look again at the rockfish that you labeled a “China Rockfish”. I do not see the distinctive yellow stripe of a china rockfish. The broad light colored dorsal spine markings and the height of the dorsal spines look more to me like that of a Quillback rockfish. I am not a scientist or an expert in any way and I understand that identifying markings can vary amongst specific varieties, I am just a fisherman who has caught many China rockfish.

[@davidhall5844]

Question: how much does a first grader weigh? Wouldn’t it be easier to just say how much a halibut could weigh?

[@boarbot7829]

Ye that was really weird of them.

[@chasewollam9250]

I have never seen so many lings in my life. Nothing even comparable to this. Why are they schooled up like that?

[@KrimeDog]

So they can get as long as a car, that I follow. But how much do 10 first graders weigh?

[@darthtrabia]

Nothing like a random bathroom lesson on halibut

[@keereekee]

I watched this video just for the halibut 😂😂😂

[@donkingisafatbiotch]

that deep water white coral looks like undewater mushroms

[@MISTERLeSkid]

What happens to a fish that is at 450-500' depth and you just yank it straight up to the surface with all the change in pressure, all within a minute or two? Do they go through the fish equivalent of the bends? I've been halibut fishing and when they're finally on the boat, it's not a pleasant end. I imagine being clubbed to on TOP of an immediate pressure change of 15 atmospheres. Not a good day.

[@docredduke4466]

I’m not an expert, but I think the main effect is a very distended air bladder. In people scuba diving, the bends comes from nitrogen becoming a gas while in your bloodstream when you ascend from deep water. I don’t think fish have that problem.

[@bobbycrispy5459]

Some will get barra trauma , excuse my spelling

[@sharkyj1796]

The halibut doesn’t have a swim bladder. Yanking them to the surface will still effect them, but not as much as a fish with a swim bladder.

[@hughtufnail302]

Bowie Seamount, west of Queen Charlotte islands is like that!

[@legacymatters3814]

Wonder if the fish population at this same spot survived the human onslaught?

[@natureisallpowerful]

11 years later on the algorithm

[@anthonykeller5120]

I thought lingcod was a fresh water fish. Caught a lot of them ice fishing in Montana.

[@markhughes7273]

Freshwater cod are called Burbot .Up here in Alberta many people call Burbot Lings

[@kunaiwithchain5278]

People really commenting on an 11 year video asking them to change the text 😂😂

[@Goldchucker1]

What is with the laser beams?

[@diadlo13]

range finding and size mesurement. with parelle beems you can tell how far the target is by how many pixel separates the two beams

[@darrellcook8253]

Used as a measurement device.

[@cshank2807]

neat

[@xyzct]

Oh my God. Fish tacos everywhere!

[@jesus28457]

I'm tagging my self as the friend that still can't catch a fish 😂😂

[@Raj.Sakaria]

There’s the Sea Mushrooms, Sea Cauliflower and Sea Lettuce

[@vanessajazp6341]

I went deep sea fishing once. Just for the Halibut.....

[@denisesproat1449]

Anyone know what the small orange fish are?

[@darrellcook8253]

Juvenile yelloweye rockfish.

[@eriks9576]

Holy Lingcod!

[@PapaDCH]

That's a lot o flings!!!

[@LostMexicanFilms]

Change the title of the video to: 35,000 lingcod and 5 halibut

[@jimdahlbeck401]

That rockfish was a quillback not a China rockfish

[@georgewashington938]

how much do 10 first graders weigh?

[@sliturarse]

I found the China rockfish at 7:35

[@tho464]

I didn’t know lingcod hang out with cauliflower

[@t-bonejones3576]

3 halibut. 1161 lingcod. Not bad for a "halibut video"

[@xynovitch255]

After they're done with south east asia seas, Chinese fishermen wants to know this location.

[@meljoseph2898]

Sorry but that first rockfish is a Quillback, not a China.

[@outdoorfreedom9778]

But is good but I about ent nuts seeing all those Ling Cod!!!!

[@frankammirati3385]

Stranger comparison with a full grown halibut and 10 first graders ? 🤔

[@claytonmckeon9872]

Who new the official measurement of halibut is first graders! Look at this one, it's weigh's almost 10 first graders

[@MC-pz3ps]

Small fish don't have a chance down there.

[@Eric-zs6rd]

4:35 appears to be a quillback rockfish and not a china

[@humacao01]

That is a magnificent breeding ground for Lincod. This is the spot fishermen would guard with their life.

[@dicedude1071]

Why the sound effect at 1:12 lmao

[@sharkyj1796]

Sorry about that, my bad

[@Rmoseman1]

Put the drone sub in front of a bottom trawler so we can see what that looks like.

[@larrywatts2517]

I don't think ling cod are that good to eat?

[@gungasc]

use to be 30 fifth graders.

[@flaminglotus11]

I think we can have more lingcod for dinner 😅

[@ThHunter-bg8ss]

sehr schön

[@frankhall7005]

H&M landing winter time half day boat. This is what you'll catch.

[@KeepSycklids]

Looks like sea shrooms 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 yes please

[@MAZ732]

Cauliflower growing in the sea 🤣😂

[@randmayfield5695]

If the halibut are still in great numbers then we aren't fishing them hard enough. When they start to go the way of the Yukon king salmon then we know we're headed in the right direction. Humans will ALWAYS take more than the system can handle and examples of that claim are abundant world wide.

[@dr.kennethnoisewater26]

I sent you a halibut you never hali’ed back

[@deandee8082]

those sea mushrooms edible? don't let the asians know about em..

[@zanderday4466]

how deep?

[@1969sofine]

Shoulda brought a harpoon and a gaff with ya

[@glitchnyrmatrix7296]

Boooo! If they would have just titled this about Ling Cod it would have been a good video. Very little content about halibut.

[@smelltheglove2038]

You must’ve missed the part about the first graders.

[@sydneyharrison4126]

ling city

[@thegrmcrckr488]

Lingcod tastes way better than halibut.....I'll take a lingcod anyday over halibut....

[@treyivey5431]

Lingcod must not be good to eat.

[@denisesproat1449]

My favorite fish of them all. You can keep the halibut, make mine lingcod.😋

[@JB-fl2gm]

This video is clickbait! Been watching for 4:30 now and haven’t seen one full grown halibut yet! Smh

[@dpcguru11]

Look at @5:12

[@rabid_1]

1 halibut in 5 mins, clickbait trash