White Mikly Cloud help ID

[spectrum]

This weekend while diving at Kettle Cove in Cape Elizabeth, Maine I came upon something I had never seen before. It was in about 10 feet of water at the outer boundary of the eel grass. There was a white cloud perhaps a foot or so long and half as high. When I looked closely it was coming from a small hole in the mud so I figure something was filter feeding or doing something. It all sounds normal enough but I never saw this before. The material being released was white like crushed shells and unlike the natural bottom mud. Can anyone shed any light.

I was diving with my wife but the water temperature wasn't conducive to any of the Tom-foolery suggested in UnderH2OView's earlier thread.

Also got up close with a little yellow lump fish, that was unusual!

Pete

 

[zthompson47]

It might be clam spawn. I saw something similar a couple of years ago in Southern California - a yellow stream shot out from under a rock and formed a cloud right in front of me. Kind of startling. I asked around and people said it was clam spawn.

 

[MSilvia]

Yeah... sounds like milt to me.