On the Eel River, the most hated fish is a California native — but a stranger nonetheless

A Sacramento pikeminnow in the Russian River near Healdsburg, Calif., on March 21, 2020. Illegally introduced to Lake Pillsbury in 1979, pikeminnow have become the apex predator of juvenile salmonids across the Eel River basin. Remove the dams and their warm slack habitat disappears with them. (Zayd Wheeler/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Bay City News)

Every summer a line of volunteers in masks and wetsuits floats down the South Fork Eel, shoulder to shoulder across the current, counting the one fish almost everyone on the river wants gone.

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