Open for Spawning: Monitoring the Salinas River
Formed by the confluence of the San Antonio, Nacimiento, and Arroyo Seco rivers, the 172-mile-long Salinas is the largest river on California’s Central Coast, and it supports Read More…
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Filed under: 2019
Surf and Turf: The Differing Diets of Wild and Hatchery Salmon
Estuaries like the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and San Francisco Bay provide a smorgasbord of delicious invertebrates for the fish living there. As juvenile Chinook salmon are Read More…
Film Friday: Drone Flyover of the Calaveras River
https://youtu.be/F00rqFAbapI The 2017 Water Year was one for the record books. All the storms we got that year made for some pretty impressive river flows in California. Read More…
Decisions, Decisions: New Tools for Endangered Species Recovery
When scientists and managers are tasked with protecting endangered species and natural resources, they first have to decide what should be done to improve conditions for those Read More…
Fish in Dry Forests – Valuing the Mekong’s Seasonal Wetlands
Wetlands are more than a meeting of land and water – they are complex systems where humans, wildlife, and environmental processes interact. However, these intricate interactions are Read More…
Photo Friday: Working Underwater
Working in water is a given when it comes to studying fish, but it can also present some challenges for installing equipment. Today's Photo Friday features shots Read More…
Hunting with Dogs in Laos
Pakpee village in the Nan District of Laos is home to the Lao Theung ethnic minority group. The village is located at the borders of Luang Prabang Read More…
Our Top Stories of 2018
FISHBIO’s weekly Fish Report newsletter started as a way to keep readers up to date on the salmon migrations that we monitor in California’s Central Valley. Since Read More…
Flashback Friday – We Count Fish
It's a new year and our outmigration monitoring program is underway. Here's a look back at a post that explains how we count migrating juvenile salmon. Many Read More…
Tule Elk: Part Tu
Conservation efforts helped bring California’s tule elk back from the brink of extinction, as we described in a previous blog post. There are now an estimated 5,700 Read More…