Grunions are the only fish in the world that come out of the water and burrow into the sand to lay their eggs. Their complicated mating ritual can be watched along SoCal beaches at night during high tide.
Grunions are the only fish in the world that come out of the water and burrow into the sand to lay their eggs. Their complicated mating ritual can be watched along Southern California to Baja California beaches at night during high tide.
The yearly event happens between the full and new moons from now through July, according to Jim DePompei, program director of the“Females will dig down into the sand up to about their gills,” he said. “They'll lay 1,000 to 3,000 eggs. Males will wrap around the females and they'll fertilize the eggs. They'll just drop their milk right down into the sand, fertilize the eggs, and then they go back into the ocean.
Then about 10 days later, the eggs hatch and the baby fish swim back into the ocean. DePompei said to take a flashlight to see in the dark, and to stay above the tide line to avoid scaring away the grunion.
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