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…
Stanislaus River
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…
Southern humpy
It’s been a season for unexpected salmon sightings in the San Joaquin Basin. We recently reported on the chum salmon we spotted migrating up the Tuolumne River. Read More…
Photo Friday: Bit of a Jam
The high flows coming out of New Melones reservoir in recent weeks have transformed the Stanislaus River in ways not seen since the start of the drought. Read More…
Bridge to the Past
Knights Ferry is small community 11 miles east of Oakdale that, like the many foothill towns in California, grew out of a need to support the population Read More…
Learning from Carcasses and Final Fish Counts
What can you learn from a dead fish? Surprisingly, a lot. Dead salmon are a common sight this time of year, as adult fall-run Chinook salmon perish Read More…