Night shift
We often have to work some pretty late hours at FISHBIO, sometimes spanning the entire night. This unconventional schedule is partially Read More…
Photo Friday: Flashy Fish Tails
Fluorescent fish tails are all the fashion for Chinook salmon this season. This batch of salmon parr are freshly marked with a temporary Read More…
Film Friday: Fyke Trap Install
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB4ZItxGr0c
With a new fyke trapping project getting underway on the San Joaquin River, we wanted to share Read More…
Film Friday: Marking Salmon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlOLpBA0UU8
Juvenile salmon outmigration season is underway! As the young fish make their way through the Read More…
Photo Friday: Heads Off
Sometimes cutting off salmon heads is all in a day's work. But it's not a macabre fetish – we're after valuable information about the Read More…
Subterranean Fish Rescue
We’ll go to great lengths to rescue fish, even when it takes us to unexpected places. When we got a call from the Modesto Irrigation Read More…
Spotting Redds: The Art of Biology
With salmon spawning season in full swing, our fisheries technicians and biologists are hard at work both in the office and out in the field Read More…
Photo Friday: Up and Over
Kayaking for our annual snorkel surveys can be more work than it looks. This "behind the scenes" shot of carrying kayaks recently won our Read More…
Flashback Friday: Fish Models, a History
In today's Flashback Friday, we trace the evolution of models used to estimate salmon populations.
In a previous Fish Report (The Salmon Read More…
Photo Friday: Two Views
Today's Photo Friday presents two views of our summer snorkel surveys. While the snorkeler's underwater observations to count rainbow trout Read More…