Hot and Crowded: Where and When Salmon Spawn on the Stanislaus River
Salmon that lay their eggs in the Stanislaus River have evolved to take advantage of a narrow time window when spawning is most likely to be successful. Read More…
Stanislaus River
Stacking Surveys: Photo Friday
Fall is here and that means weirs have been installed on the Stanislaus and Tuolumne rivers to monitor the ongoing fall-run Chinook salmon migration. As part of Read More…
Photo Friday: Pretty Pikeminnow
While our field activities have been suspended for the next few months, we managed to get a bit of sampling in earlier last month. Today's Photo Friday Read More…
Film Friday: Replenishing a River
https://youtu.be/-yM9gfiIQLA In today's Film Friday, we follow the evolution of Honolulu Bar in the Stanislaus River through a restoration and floodplain enhancement project. The project including leveling Read More…
Photo Friday: Follow the Leader
Several of our recent projects, such as the Stanislaus Native Fish Plan, have been large-scale, collaborative efforts that required teams of our staff to work together – Read More…
Photo Friday: Fish Lips
In today's Photo Friday, our staff measure and prepare to take a scale sample from a bass caught during an electrofishing survey for the Stanislaus Native Fish Read More…
Clips and Codes: How Many Central Valley Salmon Come from Hatcheries?
Every year, hundreds of thousands of adult Chinook salmon race upstream to their spawning grounds in the tributaries and mainstems of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. Read More…
Photo Friday: Measuring Up
We don't often install a fish trap on the Stanislaus weir, but when we do it's a great chance to get a close-up look at some migrating Read More…
Preparing for the Spectacle of Spawning
The end of a quiet and restful summer quickly becomes a hustle and bustle at our FISHBIO shop in Oakdale during the fall season. Not only is Read More…
Kokanee Carcass Concludes a Season of Oddballs
We’ve had four out of five Pacific salmon species visit us on the Stanislaus River in the last few months during a rather remarkable monitoring season. In Read More…