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Tag: CDFW
Conservation
Don’t Make Them Cross the Road
Once a tough sell, wildlife crossings are now proliferating in the Bay Area.
Winter Issue 2024
The Mystery of the Los Gatos Beavers
Years before beavers famously returned to Martinez, Los Gatos locals were spotting them in their creeks and ponds. How they got there, though—that’s a bit of a rabbit hole.
Conservation
Dungeness Crab Fishery Is Closed Early Again to Prevent Whale Entanglements
Dungeness crabbers finished the season without a single whale entanglement, unlike past years, but they paid a price.
Nature News
After 2022’s Fatal Algal Bloom, Scientists Fear the Bay’s Sturgeon Could Go Extinct
At Point Pinole, 21 sturgeon carcasses––some more than seven feet long––lay strewn along a mile-long stretch of beach in late August 2022, baking in the relentless heat. It was the peak of the largest harmful algal bloom on record in … Read more
Winter Issue 2018
How Long Does It Take to Restore a Population of Centenarian Fish?
The yelloweye rockfish can live to be 118 years old. It was declared overfished more than a decade ago, but recovery means patience.
The Bay
Ten Years After the Spill, a Look at Where the Cosco Busan Settlement Funding Went
Following the Cosco Busan spill in 2007, funding was set aside for restoration and recreation. A look at where it’s been spent so far.
The Bay, Wildlife
Hunt for San Francisco Bay Shark Killer Zeroes in on a Suspect
A protozoan pathogen appears to have killed thousands of sharks, rays and fish in the San Francisco Bay this spring.
Wildlife
Richardson Bay Sea Otter Likely Died From Parasite, Biotoxin
The sea otter that spent three weeks in Richardson Bay in late June and early July likely died of a “one-two punch” of domoic acid poisoning and infection from the possum-borne parasite Sarcocystis neurona, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife pathologist says.
Wildlife
Richardson Bay Sea Otter, First in San Francisco Bay Since 2011, Dies
A young sea otter that had spent the last several weeks living in Richardson Bay died over the weekend.
