Little Fish in a Big City: PIT Tag Monitoring in San Jose’s Coyote Creek
Flowing right through the heart of Silicon Valley and the City of San Jose, Coyote Creek is probably not what most people would picture when thinking about Read More…
PIT tags
Ladies Trip – The Role of Sex and Genes in Steelhead Migration
One challenge of conserving freshwater migratory fish such as salmonids is the diversity of their survival strategies. Some populations are made up of a mix of riverine Read More…
A Beginner’s Guide to PIT Tags
The life cycle of a fish is often largely invisible, muddied by murky waters. This fundamental challenge to aquatic research has led to the development of many Read More…
Fish in Fickle Rivers
A desert may seem an unlikely home for a freshwater fish, but many species find a way to scrape by. In order to survive, desert fish have Read More…
Float On: A New Floating PIT Tag Antenna for Studying Salmon Movement
In the words of famous fisheries scientist John Sheperd, counting fish is just like counting trees, except that fish are invisible and keep moving. This statement aptly Read More…
Full Circle: Innovative designs in PIT tag antennas
We are always surprised at the innovations that professionals in fisheries, wildlife, and technology come up with in the design and uses of Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) Read More…
Fish in a dry stream
The Arroyo Seco River, a major tributary of the Salinas River on California’s central coast, could be said to be a river of multiple personalities. No dams Read More…
Technology for teachers
While FISHBIO has worked with many a student during classroom visits as part of our Three Rivers Education Program, we recently hosted an event just for teachers. Read More…
Surgically Implanting PIT Tags
The recent winter storms have increased salmon and steelhead movement throughout the Central Valley, resulting in increased catches of downstream migrating fish in rotary screw-traps. A few captured rainbow Read More…