Several hundred frog species in adaptive radiations ( e. g., Eleutherodactylus, the Pacific Platymantines, the Australo-Papuan microhylids, and many other tropical frogs ), however, do not need any water for breeding in the wild.

The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.

Cetacean species native to the coast include the Orca, Gray Whale, Harbour Porpoise, Dall's Porpoise, Pacific White-sided Dolphin and Minke Whale.

British Columbian introduced species include: common dandelion, ring-necked pheasant, Pacific oyster, brown trout, black slug, European Starling, cowbird, knapweed, bullfrog, purple loosestrife, Scotch broom, Himalayan blackberry, European earwig, tent caterpillar, sowbug, gray squirrel, Asian longhorn beetle, English ivy, Fallow Deer, thistle, gorse, Norway rat, crested mynah, and Asian or European gypsy moth.

The ruddy turnstone, bar-tailed godwit, sanderling, bristle-thighed curlew and Pacific golden plover, considered species of High Concern on the national conservation priority scheme, are shorebirds that inhabit the island.

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

The Columbia supports several species of anadromous fish that migrate between the Pacific Ocean and fresh water tributaries of the river.

One species, the northern fur seal ( Callorhinus ursinus ) inhabits the North Pacific, while seven species in the Arctocephalus genus are found primarily in the Southern Hemisphere.

The subfossil remains of now extinct gray whales from the Atlantic coasts of England and Sweden were used by Gray to make the first scientific description of a species then surviving only in Pacific waters.

The living Pacific species was described by Cope as Rhachianectes glaucus in 1869.

Skeletal comparisons showed the Pacific species to be identical to the Atlantic remains in the 1930s, and Gray's naming has been generally accepted since.

The main feeding habitat of the western Pacific subpopulation is the shallow ( 5 – 15 m depth ) shelf off northeastern Sakhalin Island, particularly off the southern portion of Piltun Lagoon, where the main prey species appear to be amphipods and isopods.

Commercial whaling by Europeans of the species in the North Pacific began in the winter of 1845-46, when two United States ships, the Hibernia and the United States, under Captains Smith and Stevens, caught 32 in Magdalena Bay.

Recent research, based on archaeological and paleontological digs on 70 different islands, has shown that numerous species went extinct as people moved across the Pacific, starting 30, 000 years ago in the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands ( Steadman & Martin 2003 ).

It is currently estimated that among the bird species of the Pacific some 2000 species have gone extinct since the arrival of humans ( Steadman 1995 ).

Studies over several years covering the key mineral area of the Central Pacific resulted in a technical study on biodiversity, species ranges and gene flow in the abyssal Pacific nodule province, with emphasis on predicting and managing the impacts of deep seabed mining A workshop at Manoa, Hawaii, in October 2007 produced a rationale and recommendations for the establishment of " preservation reference areas " in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, where nodule mining would be prohibited in order to leave the natural environment intact.

More recently, complete mitochondrial sequencing indicates the two Antarctic groups that eat seals and fish should be recognized as distinct species, as should the North Pacific transients, leaving the others as subspecies pending additional data.

* Degeneriaceae ( two species of trees found on Pacific islands )

New species came to New Caledonia while species of Gondwanan origin were able to penetrate further eastward into the Pacific Island region.

The southern giant clam, a species of extremely large saltwater clam in the Pacific Ocean, has a shell that is massive in both size and weight.

After decades of escalating overexploitation the cod fishery all but collapsed in the 1990s, and the Pacific salmon industry also suffered greatly.

In April 1994 the Pacific Fisheries Management Council unanimously approved the strictest regulations in 18 years, banning all commercial salmon fishing for that year from Cape Falcon north to the Canadian border.

Also in 1994, United States Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt first proposed the removal of several Pacific Northwest dams because of their impact on salmon spawning.

California's Dungeness crab, California halibut, and Pacific salmon fisheries rely on the bay as a nursery.

For example, American Indian tribes in the Pacific Northwest had livelihoods built around salmon fishing, but aggressive dam-building destroyed their way of life.

As a group, these are known as Pacific salmon.

Several of these species appear to be Oncorhynchus — the current genus for Pacific salmon and some trout.

The presence of these species so far inland established that Oncorhynchus was not only present in the Pacific drainages before the beginning of the Pliocene (~ 5 – 6 mya ), but also that rainbow and cutthroat trout, and Pacific salmon lineages had diverged before the beginning of the Pliocene.

Life histories show a varying degree of senescence ; rapid senescing organisms ( e. g. Pacific salmon and annual plants ) do not have a post-reproductive life-stage.

Nonnative Pacific salmon have been stocked in the lake since the 1960s, and lake trout have also been stocked in an attempt to rehabilitate the species, although little natural reproduction of stocked trout has been observed.

Commonly eaten fish and squid species include salmon, hake, Pacific whiting, anchovy, herring, rockfish, lamprey, dogfish, and market squid.

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With a history of human occupation spanning many millennia, and the incredible richness of Pacific Northwest fisheries ( salmon, etc.

Both in historic and economic terms, Pilot Point has depended for its existence on the substantial seasonal returns of anadromous Pacific salmon, especially sockeye ( Oncorhynchus nerka ) which is the mainstay economic force of the entire region.

In late September, the Forks Chamber of Commerce partners with the Quileute Tribe and the City of Forks to host the Last Chance Fishing Derby at La Push with cash prizes being the enticement to those wanting to fish for salmon on the Pacific Ocean.

It annually raises about 4 million Chinook ( King ) and Coho ( Silver ) salmon which then migrate from the Issaquah Creek to Puget sound and on to the North Pacific.

Chinook was the site of the first court in Pacific County in 1853, as well as the county's first salmon cannery in 1870.

These salmon were transplanted from the North Pacific to Lake Tahoe in 1944.

" The " Ludong ", a variety of Pacific salmon, is the Philippines ' most expensive fish, ranging from 4, 000 pesos to 5, 000 per kilo.

Some of the best-known anadromous fish are the six species of Pacific salmon, which are Chinook ( King ), Coho ( Silver ), Sockeye ( Red ), Chum ( Dog ), Pink ( Humpback ), and Cherry.

** Genus Aquaparamyxovirus ( type species Atlantic salmon paramyxovirus: others include Pacific salmon paramyxovirus )

Along with typical fare, local Pacific salmon sandwiches, Dungeness crab cakes, and microbrews are served.

Lake trout, Westslope cutthroat trout, and Chiselmouth are also rare native species, while Chinook salmon, White sturgeon, Pacific lamprey, and Banff longnose dace are likely extirpated locally.