The California Department of Wildlife's Fall Midwater Trawl was out in the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel on Friday, September 16. They were supposed to be surveying for pelagic fish, but looks like they mainly found and captured a lot of invasive aquatic vegetation. That can't be good.
Figure 1. California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fall Midwater Trawl staff sorting through invasive aquatic vegetation looking for fish (CDFW image).
Figure 2. California Department of Fish and Wildlife staff sorting through the Fall Midwater Trawl catch of aquatic invasive weeds and fish and placing into buckets (CDFW image).
Figure 3. Aquatic weeds and sticks mostly captured in the Fall Midwater Trawl in the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel (CDFW image).