Wildlife officials say populations of the silvery Pacific sardine have plummeted over the past decade.
July 23, 2007 – Over the last five years, large, predatory Humboldt squid have moved north from equatorial waters and invaded the sea off Central California, where they may be decimating populations of Pacific hake, an important commercial fish.
Scientists studying dolphins dining off the California coastline have found that the marine food web is starting to look a little threadbare. The length of food chains in that web appears to have gotten shorter in response to environmental changes — such as those caused by El Niño events.
From California to Alaska, animals born during the infamous Blob are coming of age.
Rare hoodwinker sunfish, never before seen in Northern Hemisphere, washes up at Coal Oil Point Reserve
Major Mola Moment: First Confirmed Hoodwinker Sunfish Photographed in Monterey Bay!!
The Pacific Ocean off the California coast is mixed up, and so are many of the animals that live there.
The Marine Mammal Center and California Academy of Sciences are reporting cause of death for one.
The whales seem to have died from starvation and washed up on shore from California to Alaska