{"id":1532997,"date":"2022-06-29T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532997"},"modified":"2022-06-29T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:04:15","slug":"mystery-solved-its-raining-anchovies-in-san-francisco-and-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mystery-solved-its-raining-anchovies-in-san-francisco-and-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Solved: It\u2019s Raining Anchovies In San Francisco, And Here\u2019s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmystery-solved-its-raining-anchovies-in-san-francisco-and-heres-why%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532997&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>If you don\u2019t like anchovies on your pizza, better not eat it outside in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/san-francisco-school-district-drops-use-of-the-word-chief-in-job-titles-over-native-american-sensitivities\">San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The little fish are raining down from the sky in the City by the Bay, and scientists have figured out why. There\u2019s a boom in the coastal anchovy population, and the birds that dine on them while they fly overhead are messy eaters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe anchovies are in pretty big numbers right now, and are pretty close to shore,\u201d Whitney Grover, interim deputy director at the Golden Gate Audubon Society, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/raining-fish-in-san-francisco-17272717.php\">SFGate.com<\/a>. \u201cSo we\u2019re experiencing a lot of these seabirds fishing, and then if they fly back over the land on the way to wherever they\u2019re going, sometimes they drop fish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Simulation is definitely breaking down: &#8220;Anchovies are reportedly raining from the sky across San Francisco&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FEDgRKbttA\">https:\/\/t.co\/FEDgRKbttA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevesilberman\/status\/1541975404189167621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Reddit user who goes by sanfrannie\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sanfrancisco\/comments\/v87745\/fish_falling_from_sky_in_outer_richmond\/\">posted<\/a>\u00a0recently that a dozen anchovies \u201crained down from the sky\u201d onto a pal\u2019s deck; another reported that they \u201calmost got hit by a fish waiting for a bus,\u201d and still another thought \u201ca band of roving kids were doing a Tik Tok sardine-throwing challenge on a roof somewhere\u201d after seeing fish falling onto the sidewalk, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say the burgeoning anchovy population has left birds with more fish than they can eat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard stories just last week from guys who said that the water out there was just covered with thousands of birds, and the birds were just sitting on the water with anchovies in their mouths because they can\u2019t eat anymore,\u201d Larry Collins, president of the San Francisco Community Fishing Association, told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood news at least for fans of Caesar salads?!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leftcoastbabe\/status\/1542235678607409152?s=20&#038;t=aCiGYwiJH_ScuXmXv6Qxbw\">tweeted Janet Hough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFound a pile of anchovies in the park one day,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emptycontent\/status\/1542160427433467905?s=20&#038;t=aCiGYwiJH_ScuXmXv6Qxbw\">tweeted Travis Gohr<\/a>. \u201cNow I know where they came from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The boom is apparently due to a phenomenon called \u201cupwelling,\u201d in which cold water packed with nutrients rises to the surface, and attract the junior member of the food chain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just totally healthy ocean out there right now. I heard guys telling me about pelicans that, instead of diving to fill their mouths up, they\u2019re just skimming the water and getting full mouths of anchovies,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n<p>Those same pelicans are the ones dropping anchovy bombs all over the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could see them going to Ocean Beach and picking up some anchovies, then flying right over San Francisco and over the Castro to go into the bay,\u201d Grover said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u2019t like anchovies on your pizza, better not eat it outside in San Francisco. The little fish are raining down from the sky in the City by the Bay, and scientists have figured out why. There\u2019s a boom in the coastal anchovy population, and the birds that dine on them while they fly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1533050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}