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Spawning Gruinion, by Doug Martin

• Recent press reports about our favorite fish
  
  
  •  The Grunion Are Back! What to expect, by Raeann Iler, Marine Management News
  • "Sex on the beach: a beloved California fish wriggles ashore to spawn"
    By Katharine Gammon, TheGuardian.com
  • "The Moon brings a wild but precarious fish orgy to California's beaches"  by Lucy Sherriff,  BBC.com
  • "'Amazing' scene along Calif. coastline as rare animal ritual begins"
    By Erin Rode, Contributing LA Outdoors Editor from SFGATE.com 
  • New Grunion Regulations Explained in this post from CDFW and in this article from Santa Monica Daily Press. Recent reports indicate that grunion populations have declined broadly across southern California. Changes in seasonal fishing regulations were unanimously approved by the CA Fish and Game Commission at their meeting February 16, 2022. Closed season will run from April 1 through June 30, as it did originally in 1927. A bag limit of 30 fish per person will be in place during open season, starting July 1, 2022. Gear restrictions (no gear permitted) and license requirements for adults over the age of 15 years remain the same as before.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• THANKS to all the Grunion Greeters! Community scientists provided the first and only long-term range-wide dataset for spawning grunion. Your efforts are having impacts! (See article, Citizen Science on the Beach: Grunion Greeters in California. This scientific article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science uses Grunion Greeter citizen science data to track populations over time.​