The anchovies are back.

[Bean]

Piros, they get chased on to the beach by predators or get caught with the tide change.

We had a fish-kill (bunker, also a filter feeder) in one of our local rivers recently, the better part of a giant school trapped up river on a rapidly falling tide.  One of the local newspapers put it this way, “It looks like a fish kill of biblical portions. There’s a carpet of dead fish on the bottom of the floor here". 

[southwesterly]

A week later they're still here.
This was posted at the Santa Cruz Harbor today.

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The birds are doing their part, but they just can't keep up.

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The clean up crew.

[andygere]

The deck pads will clean up with something that cuts the oil.  I used simple green and it worked pretty good.  Surfed in 'em last season and it was harder to get the stank out of my wetsuit--it took a few soakings in wetsuit shampoo to lose the smell.