BK In The News: August 29, 2022
FOSTER CITY, Calif. (KRON) – An alarming number of fish have been seen floating belly up all around the bay, including the waters along the Peninsula. It’s all due to a harmful algae bloom spreading rapidly across the bay. Video shows hundreds of small dead fish at the Oakland Yacht Club. The...
BK In The News: August 28, 2022
Experts say this algal bloom is happening because the bay is chronically enriched with excessive nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus that come from forty wastewater treatment plants around the bay. What they don’t know is exactly why it’s happening now.
BK In The News: August 28, 2022
Thousands of dead fish are piling up across the Bay Area.
From the concrete outer edges of Oakland's Lake Merritt to the sandy beaches of San Francisco's Fort Funston, and the pebbled banks of Oyster Point in San Mateo County, the carcasses of fish likely poisoned by a harmful algal bloom — more...
BK In The News: August 28, 2022
Alarmingly large numbers of fish have been sighted floating belly up all around San Francisco Bay, prompting environmental groups to suggest that people and their pets stay out of the water to avoid a rare and hazardous algae bloom known as a red tide.Alarmingly large numbers of fish have been...
BK In The News: August 28, 2022
Environmental nonprofit San Francisco Baykeeper is reporting that an algae bloom is happening across the San Francisco Bay, something they believe is unprecedented in the history of the bay. Additionally, in the past week Baykeeper said it's received an increasing number of reports of dead fish...
BK In The News: August 26, 2022
A toxic algae called “Heterosigma akashiwo” is blooming in San Francisco Bay, causing the water to look murky and brown and posing a danger to local marine life.
BK In The News: August 24, 2022
Sometimes, water issues are best seen from the sky.
Thirsty riverbeds. Flooded neighborhoods. And this week, a harmful algal bloom overtaking San Francisco Bay.
That’s why David Houghton, a volunteer pilot with the environmental nonprofit LightHawk fired up the engine on his forest green 1979...
BK In The News: August 19, 2022
Algae bloom continues to grow in SF Bay. Audio only.
Blog Post: May 14, 2014
Baykeeper recently helped improve new regulations to protect San Francisco Bay from an emerging pollution threat: excess nutrients.
Nutrients are substances such as nitrogen or phosphorus that enter the Bay via treated wastewater discharged into the Bay from the region’s sewage plants. Rain also...
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