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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, May 24 2007
Fish and other sea inhabitants in the California news today
The great white shark released from the Monterey Bay Aquarium earlier this year made quite a journey following its release.
Two wayward humpback whales, nicknamed Delta and Dawn, are still hanging around Rio Vista in the Sacramento Delta region.
Meanwhile the Sacramento splittail fish became a topic of dubious language in the work of at least one woman who was with the Department of Interior. The woman has since resigned from her position and may have inadvertently guaranteed the fish a place on the Endangered Species list, because removing the spittail at this point might look suspicious.
On the other side of the coin, sea lions were once given preference under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. But now they've grown to such large numbers that they're making life miserable for people who fish. They steal the bait, they eat the fish who are attracted to the bait and they even eat the caught fish right off the lines.
posted at: 10:51 | category: /Science | link to this entry
The great white shark released from the Monterey Bay Aquarium earlier this year made quite a journey following its release.
Two wayward humpback whales, nicknamed Delta and Dawn, are still hanging around Rio Vista in the Sacramento Delta region.
Meanwhile the Sacramento splittail fish became a topic of dubious language in the work of at least one woman who was with the Department of Interior. The woman has since resigned from her position and may have inadvertently guaranteed the fish a place on the Endangered Species list, because removing the spittail at this point might look suspicious.
On the other side of the coin, sea lions were once given preference under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. But now they've grown to such large numbers that they're making life miserable for people who fish. They steal the bait, they eat the fish who are attracted to the bait and they even eat the caught fish right off the lines.
posted at: 10:51 | category: /Science | link to this entry
