Brendan Walsh landed a 10.25-pound canary rock fish near the Albion River Harbor in Mendocino County. The average weight of that type of fish is around 2 to 5 pounds.
A restoration project we reported on is turning into a major environmental success story. Just weeks after our report, fish are being spotted in a scenic stretch of an East Bay watershed for the first time in decades.
If you ever come face-to-face with the wrong kind of shark, there's something you probably want to avoid. Just a hint: they're long and really sharp. But now scientists are saying that those same razor-like teeth are offering critical clues about how threatened species may be different from their non-threatened relatives.
We may not notice it, but marine creatures off the Bay Area coast are already feeling the heat. Ocean temperatures in the north Pacific have been recording historic highs because of what's commonly known as a "blob," or marine heat wave.
Biologists say steelhead trout are listed as a threatened species in Northern California and haven't been spotted this far upstream since the 1960s. Now, they're hoping that populations will reach the creek to spawn and bolster populations.