NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Could dredging invasive clams boost fish food in Suisun Marsh?
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Robin Meadows
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mavensnotebook.comNOTEBOOK FEATURE: Could dredging invasive clams boost fish food in Suisun Marsh?mavensnotebook.comby 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. “It’s a huge problem,” says Madison Dunlap, a University of California, Davis ecologist. Now Dunlap and aquatic ecologist John Durand, also at UC […]
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