![]() Though great whites do poke their noses into San Francisco Bay from time to time, they don't linger. One day I took my sea kayak out from the south shore in a heavy wind, and the waves were big enough to dump me when I stood up beside my boat, the water came up to my waist a quarter mile from shore.īut ten or twelve feet of turbid saltwater is enough to hide secrets. Beneath the surface of San Pablo Bay lurk leviathans huge, pallid fish with ancient, prehistoric-seeming features. Low tides can expose a hundred feet of mudflats high tides chase rails out of cordgrass and pickleweed. ![]() This shallow sea blurs the boundaries between land and water. A six-foot person attempting to walk across the bay from the Sonoma County shore could make it about a third of the way at a very low tide before donning a snorkel. Aside from a deepwater shipping channel running west to east off the Contra Costa County shore, which gets about 50 feet deep off Point Pinole, the majority of this northern lobe of San Francisco Bay is less than 10 feet deep at low tide. ![]() San Pablo Bay is shallow, a 90 square mile dinner plate full of seawater. Stay with /baydelta for all the project's stories. And at its core is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta. Some of these behemoths migrate from the Pacific Ocean up the Sacramento River through California’s capital city each year.An explanatory series focusing on one of the most complex issues facing California: water sharing. The largest freshwater species in North America, they can grow 15 to 20 feet long, weigh a ton and live for nearly a century. The fish is the white sturgeon - an ancient species native to the West Coast. Here’s why no one noticedĪ dozen independent fish scientists are calling for urgent changes to sport fishing rules to save California’s largest freshwater fish after an unprecedented red tide this summer left hundreds of them dead in the estuary on Sacramento’s doorstep. Their fine: $50 per farmer California should change fishing rules after hundreds of sturgeon die, scientists say Investigation: Chronic water shortages increase, yet California regulators are unprepared ‘Death in the family.’ California tribe anguished as water, sacred fish vanish from rivers He was accused of stealing huge amounts of water over 23 years. ![]() They defied California and drained an important salmon stream. ![]()
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