Providing Water for Fish in the Calaveras River
Part of responsibly managing a watershed is efficiently using a limited water supply to balance the needs of both humans and wildlife. This is especially true in Read More…
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Keeping Tabs on Fish Health in the Calaveras River
The Calaveras River is home to several iconic and sensitive native California fish species, including both forms of Oncorhynchus mykiss (steelhead and rainbow trout) and opportunistic runs of Read More…
A New Habitat Conservation Plan for the Calaveras River
The Calaveras River is a unique tributary of the San Joaquin River in California’s Central Valley that plays important roles for both people and fish. The Calaveras Read More…
Big Chico Creek: Revisited
During the past summer, FISHBIO revisited CSU Chico’s Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve for the fourth time since 2013 to survey the creek’s summertime trout population. The Read More…
An Ocean Away: The Genetics of Yosemite’s Trout
It’s been over 150 years since the rivers in Yosemite National Park flowed freely to the ocean without interruption by dams and reservoirs. Historically, steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Read More…
Changing Genes: Studying Steelhead in San Francisco Bay Streams
A fish transported from the San Francisco Bay of 1850 to 2018 would find itself in a whole new world. Between the construction of dams, diversion of Read More…
Spotting Patterns in Fish Freckles
Some researchers spend so much time with the species they study that they eventually begin to recognize individual animals by their physical traits or unique “personality” quirks. Read More…
Hope for Rainbow Trout on the Stanislaus River
Cooked trout might make an excellent dinner, but sizzling water temperatures are bad news for wild trout in rivers. Rainbow trout on the Stanislaus River found themselves Read More…
Rainbow Trout: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Few species have captured the attention of anglers, aquaculturists, and researchers quite like the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. We recently discovered that more has been written about Read More…
Flashback Friday: One fish, two forms, many questions
Our photo and post on rainbow trout life-history was recently featured on Instagram, so we thought it was worth revisiting the mystery of what differentiates rainbow trout Read More…