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Coastal Fish Identification 2nd Edition California to AlaskaUpdated and enlarged book includes more than 30 additional species and 70 new photographsFrom the beautiful cool waters of Catalina Island to the frigid straits of British Columbia this book covers it allMore than 320 superb color photos illustrate 258 fish species in a single, compact, beautiful and easy-to-use, no-nonsense natural history field guideHouse Of Scuba Is An Authorized Dealer!
Software wise, Subsurface is a fantastic open source dive logger. It runs on mobile and Mac/Windows. Both sync to the cloud so you can access the same data on either. You can also use it to publish your logbook to https://www.divelogs.de/.
For books, at least for the west coast, I'd highly recommend:
Coastal Fish Identification: California to Alaska (the same author has published excellent guides for other regions as well)
A Guide to the Rockfishes, Thornyheads, and Scorpionfishes of the Northeast Pacific (Milton Love's other fish books are also well worthwhile, and downright hilarious. He's a marine biologist at UC Santa Barbara, and if you ever get a chance to hear him talk, don't miss out.)
Yup, this is a Plainfin Midshipman. They're pretty neat little critters.
Don't shoot things you can't positively ID. I'd suggest picking up a book like this and going over it until you can ID most of what you see on a normal day out.