When thousands of dead fish began washing up on Bay Area shores last August, the result of a harmful algae bloom, researchers were alarmed to see hundreds of sturgeon carcasses among the dead.
The Bay Area’s population of the long, spiny fish which date back to the dinosaurs have already had a rough run of late in the state’s prolonged drought, and the die-off sparked fears for their already tenuous future.
August Algal Bloom Causes Concern for Future of Bay Area's SturgeonSource: NBC Bay Area