FISHBIO Highlights of 2020
The past year has been challenging for the entire world, and for us at FISHBIO it has been no exception. Yet despite the difficulties of the coronavirus Read More…
Tuolumne River
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…
You’re in Heron Territory
While quietly kayaking down a calm stretch of river, you may be unaware that you are in the presence of a heron, until suddenly from downstream you Read More…
Subterranean Fish Rescue
We’ll go to great lengths to rescue fish, even when it takes us to unexpected places. When we got a call from the Modesto Irrigation District to Read More…
Photo Friday: Beaver Cam
Reviewing video footage from our automated monitoring cameras is usually all about counting fish, but every once in a while we get a surprise, like this beaver 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…
Film Friday: Studying Fish on the Tuolumne River
To compliment this week's blog post about a rafting adventure on the Upper Tuolumne River, today's Film Friday pick is a short film we put together about Read More…
Tuolumne River Takes Center Stage
The Tuolumne River was recently in the spotlight at the 2nd Annual Tuolumne River Film and Culture Festival in Atherton, California. The festival helped to raise awareness Read More…
Houston, we have a problem…
As we do every spring on many of the rivers in California, we are currently using rotary screw traps to enumerate outmigrating juvenile salmon – but this year, Read More…
California Cleanup Day
Last Saturday (September 21) was a day of many names, which all pointed to a common mission: cleaning up our local waterways. The California Coastal Commission dubbed Read More…