The 42nd annual Salmonid Restoration Conference returned to the shores of Santa Cruz, California in 2025. Set along the hustle and bustle of the scenic Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, last week’s conference kept a busy pace. Over 100 speakers took to podiums, covering topics ranging from floodplains to salmon foodscapes, urban creek viability to rare salmonid monitoring methods, and central valley spring run monitoring to data driven policy decisions.
Today’s Flashback Friday highlights a FISHBIO Science Explained graphic, created to detail and visualize the processes of acoustic telemetry, and how it is used to track fish! Two of the […]
Without natural predators to keep their populations in check, non-native invasive species can be detrimental to an ecosystem. These invaders often outcompete native species for key resources like food and space, allowing them to dominate landscapes. This disruption can trigger cascading changes in the food chain, ultimately reducing biodiversity and destabilizing delicate ecological balances. Small invasive species can often go unnoticed until their populations are well-established, when eradication becomes extremely difficult or even impossible.
