‘Moment of awe’: Native California species washes up dead in Bay Area
Last week, an unexpected discovery washed up on the shoreline of Oakland’s Lake Merritt: several dead Chinook salmon. They had likely swum hundreds of miles in the Pacific Ocean before making their way inland, past the Golden Gate Bridge and into the tidal lagoon, where they attempted to spawn and lay eggs. While the image of multiple fish carcasses might strike some as bleak after recent algal blooms killed off thousands of animals in the nation’s oldest designated wildlife refuge back in 2022, the presence of the threatened species shocked and thrilled Bay Area researchers.
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