About 2,000 juvenile white sea bass took a road trip

[WB Staff]

Jim Updike, left, and Mike Berdine release a bucket of recently hatched white sea bass into a grow-out pen on a floating barge in Newport Harbor on Wednesday as part of a research and population enhancement project in partnership with the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute.(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)
Month-old fish delivered Wednesday at Newport Harbor are part of a longstanding population enhancement program for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife

About 2,000 juvenile white sea bass took a road trip Wednesday to Newport Beach.

Employees of the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute transferred the month-old fingerlings from a hatchery pool in Carlsbad into two enclosed, 400-gallon aluminum tanks lashed tightly onto a flatbed trailer for the hour drive north to the Balboa Angling Club’s waterfront clubhouse at Newport Harbor.

From there, they scooped the young fish about 50 at a time into tubs, then carried them down the dock bucket-brigade-style onto a waiting boat bound for nearby grow-out pens where they will mature before being released into the wild.

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