Love is in the air. At least if you’re a grunion. It’s that time of year when the silver sardine-size fish begin wriggling up en masse on some Southern California beaches in a nighttime ritual ...

Unless, of course, you're talking about the grunion, a silvery small fish that, over the course of a few spring and summer nights, makes itself very, very known to we curious landlubbers.

The first grunion night of the 2024 season is March 10, per the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, though, again, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium's programs begin later in April. For all of the ...

The Grunion Fish-tival on Friday, March 22, at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro marks their return and celebrates the late-night ritual of grunion gazing. “Could you imagine fish actually ...

Thousands of small, silvery fish flock to mate on California beaches each spring in a spectacle called the Grunion Run. If you’re anything like me, you didn’t know what a grunion was before today.

Sometimes, the grunion are a no-show or just a few fish show up for the fun. But other times, thousands of the tiny, silver fish can blanket the sand, bringing late night excitement to beaches ...

That’s exactly what happens during a grunion run, a rare only-in-Southern California (and Baja California) scene where thousands of the tiny silver fish wash up on the beaches late at night.

Grunion runs were the rare occasions when we could be out late at night. I loved watching the fish wriggle into and out of the sand, and though we’d catch a few, we never collected them the way ...