After nearly a three-year closure, Bay Area sport salmon fishing is back, and North Bay fishermen are celebrating a season already producing impressive catches.
If you ever come face-to-face with the wrong kind of shark, there's something you probably want to avoid. Just a hint: they're long and really sharp. But now scientists are saying that those same razor-like teeth are offering critical clues about how threatened species may be different from their non-threatened relatives.
We may not notice it, but marine creatures off the Bay Area coast are already feeling the heat. Ocean temperatures in the north Pacific have been recording historic highs because of what's commonly known as a "blob," or marine heat wave.
Biologists say steelhead trout are listed as a threatened species in Northern California and haven't been spotted this far upstream since the 1960s. Now, they're hoping that populations will reach the creek to spawn and bolster populations.
Test results are in on a technology that could help keep a popular Bay Area seafood on the table. They're specially designed traps to fish for Dungeness crab, without endangering other marine creatures.
A Bay Area company is about to introduce a revolutionary kind of seafood -- not caught in the open ocean, or even farmed in captivity, but instead, grown in their lab.