Dive Safety
Diving can be dangerous so, dive to your ability, training and experience level. Please check currents before you dive.
Spearfishing
The diver must be swimming or floating in the water while spearfishing. The use of explosives or bullets attached to the spear ("bang sticks") is prohibited. See Fishing in Washington Rules and Regulations for more information.
Fishing & Shellfishing
Find more fishing and shellishing opportunities, information and regulations
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For more information
please contact the
WDFW Wildlife Program.
Phone: 360-902-2515
E-mail: wildthing@dfw.wa.gov
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Investigate some additional marine resources such as books, websites, and organizations.
The Beachcombers Guide to Seashore Life in the Pacific Northwest
Author/Editor: J. Duane Sept
Publisher: Harbour Publishing – Madeira Park, BC
Copyright: 1999
ISBN: 1-55017-204-2
Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
Pages: 240
Illustrations: Color photos
Binding: Paperback
In Print: Yes
Key: No
Life History: Yes
Specific to PNW: Yes
Technical Level: Beginner to Advanced
Summary: A concise and very-well illustrated guide to the most common intertidal animals and plants of the Pacific Northwest. Includes more than 270 species of sponges, mollusks, crustaceans, sea stars, sea anemones, jellies, fishes, seaweeds, and other flora and fauna. |
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Whelks to Whales: Coastal Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest
Author/Editor: Rick Harbo (Author/ Photographer)
Publisher: Harbour Pub Co; (October 1999)
Copyright:
ISBN: 1550171836
Dimensions (in inches): 0.56 x 8.47 x 5.57
Pages: 248 pages
Illustrations: color photos
Binding: Paperback
Specific to PNW: Yes |
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Marine Wildlife – From Puget Sound Through the Inside Passage
Author/Editor: Steve Yates
Publisher: Sasquatch Books – Seattle
Copyright: 1998
ISBN: 1-57061-158-0
Dimensions: 8.0 x 4.5 x 0.7 inches
Pages: 264
Illustrations: Line drawings
Binding: Paperback
In Print: No
Key: No
Life History: No
Specific to PNW: Yes
Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Summary: The book includes 350 descriptions of the marine life likely to be encountered underwater, on the water, or at the water's edge. Includes marine mammals, birds, fishes, invertebrates, and seaweeds. |
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Sea Cucumbers of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska, and Puget Sound
Author/Editor: Philip Lambert
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press - Vancouver
Copyright: 1997
ISBN: 0-7748-0607-9
Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
Pages: 166
Illustrations: Color & B/W photos, line drawings
Binding: Paperback
In Print: Yes
Key: Includes Key
Life History: Yes
Specific to PNW: Yes
Technical Level: Intermediate to Expert
Summary: Describes 34 species of sea cucumbers. Species identification is aided by photographs and illustrations. |
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Seashore of the Pacific Northwest
Author/Editor: Ian Sheldon
Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing – Renton, WA; Edmonton, AB; Vancouver, BC
Copyright: 1998
ISBN: 1-55105-161-3
Dimensions: 8.2 x 4.3 x 0.5 inches
Pages: 192
Illustrations: Color drawings
Binding: Paperback
In Print: Yes
Key: No
Life History: Yes, not much detail
Specific to PNW: Yes
Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Summary: A guide to the Pacific Northwest's intertidal life with full-color illustrations of 150 species and concise descriptions of mammals, jellyfish,starfish, arthropods, worms, seaweeds and more. |
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Exploring the Seashore of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon
Author/Editor: Gloria Snively
Publisher: Gordon Soules Book Publishers – Vancouver/London
Copyright: 1978
ISBN: 0-919574-25-4
Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.0 x 0.6 inches
Pages: 240
Illustrations: B/W & color photos, B/W line drawings, B/W maps
Binding: Paperback
In Print: Yes
Key: No
Life History: No
Specific to PNW: Yes
Technical Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Summary: Identification guide to seashore life categorized by zone. Illustrations and descriptions are qualitative, even whimsical, more than technical. |
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Sea Stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska, and Puget Sound
Author/Editor: Philip Lambert
Publisher: UBC Press – Vancouver/Toronto
Copyright: 2000
ISBN: 0-7748-0825-X
Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
Pages: 228
Illustrations: B/W line drawings, B/W & color photos
Binding: Paperback
In Print: Yes
Key: No
Life History: Yes
Specific to PNW: Yes
Technical Level: Intermediate to Expert
Summary: Describes 43 species and subspecies of sea stars in the coastal waters of northwestern North America in detail. Includes a key to families. |
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Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest
Author/Editor: Andy Lamb and Phil Edgell
Publisher: Harbour Publishing – Madeira Park, BC
Copyright: 1986
ISBN: 0-920080-75-8
Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Pages: 224
Illustrations: Color photos, B/W line drawings
Binding: Paperback
In Print: Yes
Key: No
Life History: No
Technical Level: Intermediate
Summary: Guide relies solely on line drawings and photos for identification. Provides interesting information about families. Species descriptions are limited to how each fish is likely to be encountered, methods of procurement, and edibility. |
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151 Dives in the protected waters of Washington State and British Columbia
Author/Editor: Betty Pratt-Johnson
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Copyright: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-59485-043-1
Illustrations: B/W photos, maps
Binding: Paperback
In Print: Yes
Key: No
Life History: No
Specific to PNW: Yes
Technical Level: Intermediate to Expert
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| Northwest Shore Dives
Author/Editor: Stephen Fischnaller
Publisher: Bio-Marine Images
Copyright: 1986
ISBN: 0961710608, 9780961710606
Dimensions:
Pages: 240
Illustrations: Yes
Binding: Paperback
In Print: No
Key: No
Life History: No
Specific to PNW: Yes
Technical Level: Beginner to Advance |
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| Shore Diving Near Seattle
Author/Editor: Alexander, Maxwell and Kent Wallner
Publisher: SmartMedicine Press, Seattle, WA
Copyright: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9648991-7-9
Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 0.5 inches
Pages: 260
Illustrations: Color photos
Binding: Paperback
In Print: Yes
Key: Yes
Life History: No
Specific to PNW: Yes
Technical Level: Beginner to Advanced
Summary: This book is intended to educate Puget Sound divers and to enhance safety through knowledge. |
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