Flashback Friday: Hatchery History
Our recent Fish Reports on the 2016 and 2017 salmon seasons highlight the major role fish hatcheries play in California's salmon fishery. On Read More…
The Lake Tahoe Takeover
While Lake Tahoe is famous for its clear blue waters, the ecosystem of the lake is far from untouched or pristine. Stocking and unintended Read More…
Stuck in the Middle: Insects in the Food Web
Macroinvertebrates are one of the smaller and often unnoticed organisms in the food web, but they play a vital role in stream ecosystems. As Read More…
Chinook Salmon Abundance: 2014 Review and 2015 Preview
The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) releases two key documents each February related to salmon abundance: a Review of Ocean Salmon Read More…
Fish models: a (brief) history
In a previous Fish Report (The Salmon Mega-model), we discussed the very important role that mathematical models play in fisheries Read More…
White shark populations rally in the Atlantic
The classic summertime movie Jaws struck fear into the hearts of millions of beachgoers around the globe as they imagined a 25-foot-long white Read More…
New innovations from old engineering
In drought years, there is often little concern for flood control or California's levee system that was designed a century ago, but wildlife Read More…
Half-pounder history
Salmonid research has an extensive history in California: studies on steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and Chinook salmon (O. tshawyscha) in Read More…
Inside the matrix for salmonid life cycle monitoring
Coastal salmonid monitoring can be very challenging due to the typical environmental characteristics of coastal streams, as well as the Read More…
On the hook: reigning in wasteful fisheries bycatch
The relationship between commercial fishers and their target fish species is rarely one-to-one. Commercial ocean fishing is often a Read More…