Flashback Friday: Rings in Their Ears

Today's Flashback Friday tells the story of fish ear bones, or otoliths, and our encounter with a hefty otolith in the Mekong Basin. Fish Read More…

World Record Weigh-in for Monstrous Mystery Fish

It’s not every day that a world record is broken in the realm of fishing, and it’s even rarer to see it with your own eyes. But such an Read More…

Flashback Friday: Winter-Run Salmon and Temperature

In today's Flashback Friday, we explore the delicate dance required to keep water cool enough for winter-run Chinook salmon in the Sacramento Read More…

Flashback Friday: Feminized Fish and the Power of Pollution

Today's Flashback Friday reveals how pharmaceutical products in our waterways have the power to feminize male fish – even inside protected Read More…

Food Flight: Fish Hitch a Ride in Bird Guts

Fish can show up in remarkable places, like ponds disconnected from any other body of water or remote alpine lakes. Sure, sometimes they get Read More…

Plenty of fish in the stream

Earth is a blue planet, with less than a third of its surface rising above the oceans that dominate the globe. However, of all the water Read More…

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 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 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 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 Read More…