Photo Friday: Not all that glitters
Do you recognize this fish? Today's Photo Friday features Carassius auratus – more commonly known as the goldfish! Thanks to some well-meaning, if ill-directed, pet owners, many Read More…
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Loud Noises! Motorboats Modify Minnow Behavior
The environment is flooded with the byproducts of human populations, be they chemical, physical, or visual. But among the most prevalent of pollutants are human-created sounds – Read More…
Adaptable Salmon and Scientists: 37th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference
California’s salmon and trout have persisted to survive in spite of significant challenges both past and present, highlighting that they are remarkably adaptable creatures. The recent 37th Read More…
Flashback Friday: Attractive Acne?
What's with the bumps? Today's Flashback Friday gets up close and personal with the Sacramento splittail. At first glance, the little raised dots on the head of Read More…
Betta Bots Decipher the Language of Love
Science fiction has long imagined a future in which robots, for better or worse, play a major role. The use of robots today, however, is sometimes stranger Read More…
Stay Cool, Babies – Growth and Temperature Tradeoffs for Juvenile Chinook
Although they spend their lives hidden beneath the surface, fish are directly affected by the weather happening outside their aquatic world. This is particularly true of species Read More…
Photo Friday: Making the Leap
If Friday doesn't already have you jumping for joy, can we tell you how stoked we are that spring-run Chinook salmon have returned to Big Chico Creek? Read More…
Missing Mayflies: Imperiled Insects Part 4
Most insects that begin life underwater enjoy only a fleeting adult existence. A mature dragonfly’s seven-month lifespan would seem like an eternity to the stoneflies and caddisflies, Read More…
Things are Looking Up: The 2018 Salmon Season
It’s time for our yearly review of the Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (PFMC) Review of Ocean Salmon Fisheries. This is the report that PFMC publishes annually on Read More…
Film Friday – ARIS Tutorial and Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srsvExuQFFw For today's Film Friday, we have a review of the ARIS sonar camera, including how we set it up and use it in fisheries research. Learn Read More…