Barrel-aged
Hundreds of craft breweries feature barrel-aged beers, and for good reason: they taste fantastic. Historically, wooden barrels were used as a durable vessel for transporting beer, but Read More…
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Filed under: 2016
What goes up must come down
Tens of thousands of steelhead previously migrated through Santa Cruz on their way up the San Lorenzo River, and anglers would line the banks to fish in Read More…
Lagoon Life: High Risk, High Reward for California Steelhead
Children of the ‘80s may have fantasized about the tropical adventure in the film “The Blue Lagoon,” but for many biologists, lagoons are fascinating even without the Read More…
Beautiful and endangered
The FISHBIO Laos team caught many different fish species during gill net surveys in Xaysomboun Province, Lao PDR, at the end of 2015, but the one shown Read More…
Carp Get Herpes Too
Australia’s carp will soon have herpes; at least, that’s the plan. Last month, the Australian government pushed forward to implement The National Carp Control Plan, a $15-million-dollar Read More…
Ghost Corals: Major Damage on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Coral reefs, which are sometimes called the rainforests of the oceans, are typically hotspots of biodiversity teeming with life. But El Niño and global warming are turning Read More…
Sweet to Spicy
As California’s Central Valley weather heats up, tiny peppers begin to appear on the more than 50 varieties of peppers we planted in the FISHBIO garden this Read More…
Water not wasted
One of the few benefits of a drought is that people suddenly become acutely aware of where their water comes from – yet many of us still Read More…
Fish in Space: Where the fish are, and why we need to know
Fish have to swim – and as a result, most fish are constantly on the move, some displaying very complex migration patterns over the course of their Read More…
The Urban Killdeer
A few weeks back, one of our biologists was out behind our building in Oakdale, California, when he noticed a noisy little bird running on the ground Read More…