8 articles
California flying fish: the biggest glider above the kelp coast. How they launch, why they arrive with warm water, and what eats them.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax): the filter-feeding forage fish behind seabirds, salmon and sea lions all along the Pacific kelp coast.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii): the life cycle behind the spawn that whitens beaches, the predators it feeds, and why kelp beds still matter.
Tom Okafor ·
Profile of the Pacific sand lance: a pencil-thin forage fish that buries itself in sand beside the kelp forest and feeds seabirds, salmon and whales. Facts and ecology.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Pacific sardine: the ecology of Sardinops sagax, its great twentieth-century collapse and recovery, and why this small fish feeds the whole kelp coast.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The shiner surfperch (Cymatogaster aggregata) is the small, schooling seaperch of Pacific kelp beds and piers — a live-bearing forage fish worth knowing.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Meet the tubesnout, the matchstick-slim schooler of Pacific kelp canopies — a stickleback relative that nests on kelp and feeds half the birds.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Pacific herring turn quiet kelp beds into a silver-and-turquoise spectacle each year. Learn how kelp forests host the spawn that feeds a coast.
Tom Okafor ·