NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Could dredging invasive clams boost fish food in Suisun Marsh?
by Robin Meadows The San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary has been a food desert for fish for two decades and the introduced overbite clam is a major culprit. The fish eat tiny creatures called zooplankton, which in turn eat tiny plant-like organisms called phytoplankton. But overbite clams eat so much phytoplankton that there’s hardly any zooplankton for fish. “
