JAPANESE SARDINES IN CALIFORNIA? NOAA FISHERIES REPORTS : LINK TO PODCAST

FISHERIES NOAA : PODCAST JAPANESE SARDINES IN CALIFORNIA

Excerpt: In 2022, Dr. Gary Longo detected Japanese sardines swimming in the eastern Pacific, off the coast of California. This was the first time they’d ever been seen here—their normal range is in the western Pacific from Korea to Russia, thousands and thousands of miles away. It was a shocking discovery. Sardines are incredibly important to the California current ecosystem and are a key forage fish across the globe.

On this episode of Dive In with NOAA Fisheries, we scratch at this mystery of Japanese sardine appearing in U.S. waters. How did they get here? What does it mean for the native Pacific sardine? Are they staying? (Spoiler alert: so far, yes.)

We hear from Dr. Longo, a research scientist at NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center and one of the authors of a new study documenting this discovery. The authors suggest marine heatwaves that warmed the North Pacific over the last decade might have opened a corridor of favorable habitat, which the Japanese sardines followed across the ocean.

RARE BLUE EYED PINK GINGER ALBINO SEAL MAY BE REJECTED BY COLONY

DAILY MAIL : UGLY DUCKING SEAL - REJECTION -

He's "ginger" and proof of a rare genetics in seals.

EXCERPT:  Biologist Vladimir Burkanov says that so far this fur seal on Tyuleny Island - nicknamed The Ugly Ducking - has not become a total outcast,yet there are signs of it being slightly shunned.

"The pup looks well fed and was very active, so its mother clearly gave it plenty of milk," he said.