Through the Delta Science Fellowship program, post-docs and graduate students team up with academic and community mentors to study targeted San Francisco Bay-Delta research priorities. The program is geared toward providing scientific information for managers and policy makers. Since 2003, the Delta Science Program and its partners have funded 58 fellowships, totaling more than $8 million. California … Continue reading
Do you love seafood? Are you curious about San Diego’s local catch? Would you like to be able to buy fresh seafood directly from local fishermen? If the mere questions whet your appetite for a succulent fresh fish fillet or piece of “uni,” you may be interested in a unique seafood tasting event on Saturday, Sept. 7 … Continue reading
MOSS LANDING – The California sheephead is a predatory temperate reef fish that, along with the Southern sea otter, is believed to help control overgrazing of kelp by sea urchins. A new study, published in the early online edition of the journal Ecology, shows that not all sheephead, however, actually consume the spiny herbivores. In … Continue reading
New aerial surveys of sardines off Southern California will address fishermen’s concerns that sardine abundance estimates are effectively “missing California fish.” Collaborative Fisheries Research West has awarded a $16,000 grant to a California sardine industry group to help pay for two spotter-pilot surveys. The first survey is being flown this summer and the second will occur in … Continue reading
BERKELEY – Imagine farmers growing crops not for food but to sequester carbon dioxide, or companies that might pay for habitat restoration to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. Under the state’s cap-and-trade program, such scenarios are possible, though there remain many details to hash out, not the least of which is putting hard numbers to … Continue reading
LA JOLLA – Professor Stuart Sandin and graduate student Noah Ben-Aderet, both with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been awarded a $25,000 grant from Collaborative Fisheries Research West to study one of the most popular trophy fish off San Diego – California yellowtail. The researchers will be tagging and tracking the … Continue reading
