News tagged with central california coast
Food choices and location influence California sea otter exposure to disease
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Jan 19, 2009 |
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Sea otters living along the central California coast risk higher exposure to disease-causing parasites as a consequence of the food they eat and where they feed.
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Unfavorable ocean conditions likely cause of low 2007 salmon returns along West Coast
Mar 03, 2008 |
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NOAA scientists are reviewing unusual environmental conditions in the Pacific Ocean as the likely culprit for the dramatically low returns of Chinook and coho salmon to rivers and streams along the West Coast of the United ...
Salmon fishing season at risk in Calif.
Mar 13, 2008 |
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U.S. officials are considering canceling the 2008 salmon fishing season in California and Oregon because of a dramatic decline in salmon population.
Sea otter study reveals striking variability in diets and feeding strategies
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Jan 14, 2008 |
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Ecologists have long observed that when food becomes scarce, animal populations exploit a wider range of food sources. So scientists studying southern sea otters at different sites in California's coastal waters were not ...
Baby salmon sharks dying a strange death
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Aug 12, 2007 |
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Researchers are trying to figure out why baby salmon sharks are washing up dead on central California beaches.
Tropical Storm Rick's center expected to pass south of the Baja
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Oct 20, 2009 |
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Residents in southern Baja California, Mexico still haven't recovered from last month's Hurricane Jimena, and Tropical Storm Rick is now bringing rains to southern tip of the Baja. The National Hurricane Center ...
California commission approves sweeping restrictions on coastal fishing
Aug 07, 2009 |
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California regulators sharply restricted fishing off more than 20 percent of the state's coastline from the San Francisco peninsula to Mendocino County, turning back pleas to allow more abalone diving and delay the new measures ...
For horned lizard, horns alone do not make the species
Jul 21, 2009 |
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How do you recognize a new species? A thorough study of the million-year evolution of California's horned lizards, sometimes referred to as "horny toads," shows that when it comes to distinguishing such recently ...
Researchers study widespread areas of low oxygen off northwest coast
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2008 |
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A team of scientists studying the California Current – a slow-moving mass of cold water that travels south along the coast from British Columbia to Baja California – are seeing increasing areas of water off Washington and ...
New species of ghostshark from California and Baja California
Sep 22, 2009 |
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New species are not just discovered in exotic locales -- even places as urban as California still yield discoveries of new plants and animals. Academy scientists recently named a new species of chimaera, an ...
Baja watching Tropical Storm Patricia in the latest GOES-11 satellite movie
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Oct 13, 2009 |
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The nineteenth tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific formed over this past weekend, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Patricia. The GOES-11 satellite captured Patricia from her "birth" several hundred miles south of ...
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