Open for Spawning: Monitoring the Salinas River
Formed by the confluence of the San Antonio, Nacimiento, and Arroyo Seco rivers, the 172-mile-long Salinas is the largest river on California’s Central Coast, and it supports Read More…
Fish Counting Weir
Photo Friday: Working Underwater
Working in water is a given when it comes to studying fish, but it can also present some challenges for installing equipment. Today's Photo Friday features shots Read More…
Learning from Carcasses and Final Fish Counts
What can you learn from a dead fish? Surprisingly, a lot. Dead salmon are a common sight this time of year, as adult fall-run Chinook salmon perish Read More…
Counting Herring
FISHBIO fabricators have adapted their weir building skills to suit a new species for our team: herring. We designed a novel custom rigid weir that was portable, Read More…
Fall pulse flows prompt limited response from salmon – New Publication
It’s no secret that salmon need water, but just how much water brings them the most benefit and when is often a subject of debate. A new Read More…
Photo Friday: Weir Installation
On today's Photo Friday, we wanted to share a picture of our recent weir installation in action. Setting up our fish counting weirs is an annual event Read More…
Oh No, High Flow!
Being able to work outside is a perk to being a fisheries technician at FISHBIO; however, things are not always clear skies and calm rivers. Field techs Read More…
Heavy Metal
One of the more unique monitoring solutions created by our FABLAB is the rigid weir featured in our post Rigid by Design, a project constructed to track Read More…
Reconnected River
Steelhead can live in the Salinas River watershed, but their ability to access this habitat depends largely on the rain forecast and river water levels. While the Read More…
Rigid by Design
Using fish counting weirs to tally migrating salmonids is familiar territory for FISHBIO: we have been operating these devices on multiple rivers for over a decade, and Read More…