Smart as a Wrasse

In the hierarchy of animal intelligence, we humans tend to place fellow warm-blooded mammals such as dogs, chimpanzees, or maybe elephants Read More…

Spawn of the Living Dead

As October draws to a close, most of us have spent the past few weeks surrounded by images of Halloween monsters. Whether flipping past TV Read More…

A Bark Worse Than Their Bite

Few fish get a bad rap quite like the piranha. Their reputation as bloodthirsty dates back to at least 1913, when Theodore Roosevelt Read More…

Here Be Giants

California is home of “the Giants,” and not just on the baseball field. One of the most imposing fish on the Pacific coast, the giant sea Read More…

Flashback Friday: Awkward Introduction

As we described in last week's Fish Report, California has a long history of introducing non-native fishes into its waters. But not all of Read More…

Beating the odds

The overwhelming majority of fish that we handle in the field look how you would expect them to – more or less a typical fish of their Read More…

Flashback Friday: In the Thick of It

In today's Flashback Friday, we go deep into the bushes in search of the Sacramento splittail. Sometimes the riverine habitat we work in Read More…

All Boys Club

Can skewing sex ratios of invasive fish save salmonids? Last year we wrote a Fish Report about a predator-control method being developed by Read More…

Spotting Patterns in Fish Freckles

Some researchers spend so much time with the species they study that they eventually begin to recognize individual animals by their physical Read More…

Photo Friday: Striped Bass Side Eye

Is this striped bass throwing us some side eye? We're not sure, but we did like this photo enough to make it the winner of our monthly staff Read More…