Running of the Grunion

[MIRAMAR]

I call it Spring Break for fish:
grunion run on Sandy Beach - YouTube

 

[Stuart]

Very cool. If I'm not mistaken, that's a pretty rare thing to see them during the day, but could be due to the tide. They usually mass the beach at night in the light of the full moon.

 

[mrb1421]

cool video. I watched them go up the beach in las conchas over easter weekend. took a ultra lite ride & they were thick between the new public beach & the estuary.

 

[MIRAMAR]

Stuart, the Gulf of California grunion spawn day and night:

"The closest relative of the California grunion is the gulf grunion, ​

Leuresthes sardina, which is found in the Gulf of California. This species spawns both day and night, while the California grunion spawns only at night.
California Department of Fish & Game, Marine Region, The Amazing Grunion

 

[Kenny]

We used to go Grunion hunting at Huntington beach at the cliffs, usually it's on a full moon. They look very much the same, but the way they act once they get to the beach looks very different. You'll see the female dig herself tail first into the sand on the Pacific side, and then the males wiggle around her fertilizing the eggs, and of course they ride waves in and out instead of the small surge's we have in our big bathtub; the Sea of Cortez.
Some people still think it's like a Snipe hunt, and that you're pulling their leg when told about them.

 

[Stuart]

Stuart, the Gulf of California grunion spawn day and night:

"The closest relative of the California grunion is the gulf grunion, ​

Leuresthes sardina, which is found in the Gulf of California. This species spawns both day and night, while the California grunion spawns only at night.
California Department of Fish & Game, Marine Region, The Amazing Grunion

Hence my confusion!

 

[MIRAMAR]

That sounds exactly like how they spawn- the female digs the hole by spiraling in, lays the eggs, spirals out, then the male fertilizes the eggs. I've seen Miramar beach full of the silver fish- usually at full tide or a day or two later.

 

[lagrimas85]

De Frente - Periodismo en serio » Mueren miles de peces a la orilla del mar Not a grunion run according to De Frente they are reporting thousands of fish dying and blaming fishing boats. What a bunch of nut's.