**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Millions of krill—tiny shrimp-like animals that are food for salmon, whales and other large marine species—have been washing up on beaches from Bodega Bay, Calif. to Newport, Ore. in recent weeks. Joe Tyburczy, a California Sea Grant Coastal Specialist in Eureka, is trying to figure out […]
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Got Gas? Try Recompression!
June 7th, 2013
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> If you’ve ever been fishing off the coast of California, you’ve likely captured a rockfish, and perhaps even captured a rockfish that you had to throw back. If this is familiar to you, the sight of a blown up rockfish with eyes bulging, and something coming […]
Building Trust and Collecting Data in California’s Marine Protected Areas
June 5th, 2013
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> While both are deeply invested in the future of the state’s coastal waters, fishermen and ocean scientists haven’t always agreed on the need for or proper location of marine protected areas (MPAs) in California. Yet both agree on the need for MPA monitoring. The California Collaborative Fisheries […]