Fate and Chance Encounters: Mark-Recapture Studies in an Open Fish Population
Reeling in a behemoth is a chance encounter with a formidable fish, and your decision whether to keep or release your catch seals the fish’s fate. If Read More…
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Improving our Odds
For the last few years, we’ve been conducting a study in the San Joaquin River for which we deploy multiple fyke traps in the spring and early Read More…
One fish, two fish – Using mark-recapture to estimate population size
Have you ever reeled in a fish and seen a strange tag sticking off it? Chances are, that fish was part of a mark-recapture study. Capture-mark-recapture techniques Read More…
New Video: Evaluating Non-Native Fish Populations in the San Joaquin River
Our newest video features our ongoing project to study the non-native fishes of the San Joaquin River in California’s Central Valley. Non-native fishes outnumber natives in the Read More…
Photo Friday: Outside Looking In
Our fyke traps are back fishing in the San Joaquin River, and that means they require occasional cleaning. This photo won our recent staff photo contest for 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 this film showing how these giant fish traps get Read More…
Familiar Fyke
It’s a small world when it comes to fishing gear. Our staff were recently traveling in Stung Treng, Cambodia, when they came across a familiar looking fyke Read More…
Have Fyke, Will Travel
Our fabrication team has turned out another success by constructing a triplet of fyke traps to be deployed in the lower Mokelumne River. Commissioned by the Bureau Read More…
The latest catch: striped bass fyke trap study results
This past spring, FISHBIO used a pair of large fyke traps to target striped bass migrating from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta into the San Joaquin River as Read More…
Counting bass
There are common questions that anglers and fish biologists often ask, such as What kinds of fish are found in this river? and How many are there? Read More…