Grunion only fish you have to run aft...
20.08.09
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — If the tide is considerable, the weather is warm, the clock is approaching midnight and the beach you're standing on is in Southern California, it's a addicted that romance is in the air — or the water. In these parts, it's a time for grunion love.
The California grunion does something no other fish on the planet is known to do. It surfs a fluctuate right out of its world and into ours. Then it plops itself down on the sand to lay and fertilize its eggs before waiting patiently for another big gesture to carry it home.
Sometimes, before it hitches a ride back to the ocean, someone like 13-year-old Judy Feng will come down with it — or at least try to (they're slippery).
"At first I was trying to get it, but it was all slippery and I dropped it," a delighted Feng said during a brand-new midnight run at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, where more than 2,000 people lined the shore for a sound half-mile in search of the legendary but elusive aquatic wonder, known scientifically as leuresthes tenuis.
Source: The Associated Press