Tracking Fish on the Move: Biotelemetry in the Delta
Just like M tracks James Bond across the world after implanting a chip in his arm in the remake of Casino Royale, so can biologists track fish Read More…
San Joaquin River
Sturgeon Sightings in the San Joaquin Basin
Sturgeon are impressive, prehistoric-looking beasts lurking in the shadows of river-bottoms. Two species of sturgeon are native to California, the white sturgeon and the green sturgeon. The Read More…
The Billion Dollar Salmon
California’s San Joaquin River has been at the heart of a long and expensive legal battle. The issue at hand is how the construction and operation of Read More…
Diving the Delta
Our staff often find themselves needing to jump into challenging environments. This happened recently, when FISHBIO was offered an opportunity to assist in a collaborative effort to Read More…
Salmon on a string
What do a hatchery salmon on a string, a GPS from a dog collar, a length of PVC pipe, and a GoPro have to do with fisheries 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…
Holding on to individuality
The two large salmon-bearing watersheds in California, the Klamath-Trinity and the Sacramento-San Joaquin basins, drive the production of the recreational, commercial, and tribal harvest of Chinook salmon 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…
Follow that fish!
FISHBIO, Hanson Environmental, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Water Resources, California Department of Fish and Game, and the U.S Bureau of Reclamation are working Read More…
San Joaquin sturgeon captured on DIDSON
Sturgeon are growing increasingly rare along the west coast, especially in the San Joaquin Basin, the southern extent of their range. We estimate that this fish is Read More…