Trout that look like no other, colored a vivid California gold and called “Lightning Trout,” have been planted in four lakes in the East Bay hills and brought fishing to life in the Bay Area.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/amp/Lightning-Trout-electrify-four-East-Bay-14873871.php
Scientists believe global warming may explain why populations have collapsed. That suggests looming troubles for marine species that rely on the tiny fish.
A 10-foot shark washed up at San Onofre State Beach just south of San Clemente on Monday, Dec. 16, with experts doing a necropcy a day later to find out just why the sevengill shark ended up on dry land.
Harbingers of a diminishing ecosystem, the smelt are almost extinct. Now, forces within the Trump administration could usher them into oblivion.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/22/delta-smelt-fish-trump-california-aoe
For just the third time in nearly four decades, California wildlife officials say they’ve documented a 7-year-old fall-run Chinook salmon.
According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the fish was caught by a commercial salmon troller in July near Bodega Bay. The fish measured 36 inches long.
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/12/27/7-year-old-chinook-salmon-caught-bodega-bay/amp/
