Arts & Entertainment SF Has World’s Oldest Living Aquarium Fish, and the Aquarium Just Figured Out the Fish’s Age The oldest fish in any aquarium in the world is here in SF at the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium, whose biologists just figured out the fish’s age. That said, they still don’t know its gender.
SF News Fish Beware, Another ‘Red Tide’ Toxic Algae Bloom Could Be Coming To Bay Area Waters This Summer We could see a repeat of last summer’s “red tide” toxic algae bloom that caused a mass fish kill-off at Lake Merritt, as scientists have observed the telltale reddish-brown water at shorelines in Berkeley, Emeryville, and Albany.
SF News City of Oakland Will Incinerate the 1,200 Pounds of Dead Fish That Have Turned Up in Lake Merritt There’ll be a big fish fry in Oakland, but not the good kind. The toxic algal bloom that has killed literally tons of fish in Bay Area waters is leading to Oakland Public Works incinerating the 1,200 pounds of dead fish that were floating in Lake Merritt.
SF News Fish Are Falling From the Sky In SF, and Clumsy Pelicans Are Likely to Blame A seasonal boom in the anchovy population on the San Francisco coast and in the Bay is causing some heavy traffic among feasting seabirds, and this is apparently leading to fish seeming to fall out of the sky in the city and elsewhere.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Might Have Served Hepatitis-Tainted Fish Fish that tested positive for a viral liver disease has spurred a recall in three states — and officials say that five Bay Area restaurants might have already served the troubled tuna. The Associated
SF News Check Out This Hypnotic Video Of A Pipe Full Of Baby Salmon That's thousands of baby king salmon 🐟🎣 about to be unloaded into the ocean - part of @CaliforniaDFW @ebmud study of survival. @CBSSF 11 pm pic.twitter.com/z7Sr7lzo56— Betty Yu (@BettyKPIX) May 1,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Sushi Spot V16 Opens SF's Millionth Fast-Casual Poke Bar Everyone is pretty much required to have a side-hustle these days, and V16, the latest sushi restaurant to occupy the northeast corner of 16th and Valencia, is no exception. With four stars on
SF News That Bay Bridge Pier Implosion Didn't Kill Any Fish, Says Caltrans Well it looks like Caltrans has found a winning method for removing the remaining piers that used to support the Bay Bridge's rickety eastern span. As they report, that "bubble curtain" that got
Arts & Entertainment What The Heck Is This Piranha-Like Fish Doing In NorCal Waters? Look at that grin! That's the terrifying mouth of a pacu, an omnivorous South American freshwater fish that's a cousin to the infamous piranha. And like their relative, they're usually found only in
SF News This Nightmare Fish That Was Just Photographed In Monterey Bay Will Haunt Your Life What you are looking at is a female anglerfish, of a species known as the "black seadevil" for obvious reasons. It's pretty small (9 centimeters) and lives at depths of 1,900 feet
SF News Monster Goldfish Invading Lake Tahoe! Do you suffer from a fear of swimming in lakes (or "limnophobia")? Are you leery of having something slimy and scaly brush up against you whilst blithely enjoying a day at the lake?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fish Are Lies Sad news, folks: about a third of the fish you ate last in the two years was probably not what you thought it was. According to a new study, this huge oceanic conspiracy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deplorable Teen Attempts To Steal Fish In Her Purse, Punches Out Supermarket Employee Teens? What won't they do for market fresh fish? In South San Francisco Wednesday evening, a 19-year-old lady allegedly stuffed her purse full of fish at the Pacific Supermarket on El Camino Real,
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Dolores Park's New Playground Peppered With Beautiful Street Art Love it or hate it — pst, we love it — the new playground in Dolores Park got a wee bit of a makeover with some fun street art. Jeremy Novy painted some of his
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Quintetto, A Fishy Music Ensemble Laughing Squid brings our attention to "Quintetto," a musical art installation that uses fish movement to create music. "The effect is achieved by capturing the motion of the fish on camera and translating
SF News San Francisco to Ban Goldfish? R&B duo Matier & Ross have word that the San Francisco Animal Control Commission suggests a citywide ban on goldfish sales. While buying pets from puppy and kittens mills are a
misc Gourami Fish Needs Home Seeing as how SFist urges you to spread the word about our Wednesday dog/cat pet adoptions, it's only fair we give fish a turn. Please meet Rosebug, a pink gourami living at
misc Photo du Jour 512 "Jars O Fish" by kapshure. (Also, this is horrible, keeping bettas in tiny little jars. Please don't do this. Bettas do not belong on your desk in, you know, a little glass or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo du Jour 480, 481 SFist reader April sent us the above images of a fish in a trash can in the heat, found this weekend in Noe Valley at Church and 28th Street. We find it oddly
SF News PETA Rebrands Fish as "Sea Kittens" In an attempt to further prove their lack of lucidity -- and to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from hunting succulent, flaky, tender sea life -- the People for the
misc Crab Season Begins This past weekend crab season kicked off, and local fishers headed out to sea to roundup laods of Dungeness crab. This year, however, expectations of a huge crab catch are low. According to
misc Let's Dream of a Non-Wretched Fisherman's Wharf Oh, sure, you've seen all the coverage of Jan Gehl's plan to turn Fisherman's Wharf into something tolerable. But wouldn't you like to know more? The excellent SPUR is holding a forum TODAY
SF News Man Handed Two-<del>Year</del> Month Prison Term For Selling Endangered Fish Online 27-year-old Danny Yep of San Francisco must spend two months in a federal prison and then four months in home confinement for selling the endangered Asian Arowana fish (AKA the Asian Boney tongue
