Anchovies Are Reportedly Raining From the Sky Across San Francisco

SFgate ^ | June 28, 2022 | Sam Moore

[nickcarraway]

Fish are falling from the sky in parts of San Francisco, and a boom in coastal anchovy populations is to blame.

Reddit user sanfrannie posted earlier this month that about a dozen 8-inch silver fish “rained down from the sky” onto their friend’s roof and back deck in the Outer Richmond. Several other users commented with similar experiences — one person said they “heard a whoosh sound behind me and heard a massive splat” before seeing fish scattered on a nearby driveway. Another commented that they “almost got hit by a fish waiting for a bus” in the Castro, and a third person said they assumed “a band of roving kids were doing a Tik Tok sardine-throwing challenge on a roof somewhere” after seeing several fish fall onto an Outer Richmond sidewalk.

Local fishers and researchers are blaming seabirds that, because of an explosion in the anchovy population off the coast of the Bay Area, now have more fish than they know what to do with.

[SaveFerris]

(a fish waiting for a bus”

I wonder where he was going?)

To the aquarium of course.

Duh.

😁😂🤣😆😜

[GaltAdonis]

"What's THAT?"

"Looks like whale meat..."

[Savage Rider]

Nothing better than fresh anchovies with a little salt and lemon squeeze.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Local fishers and researchers are blaming seabirds that, because of an explosion in the anchovy population off the coast of the Bay Area, now have more fish than they know what to do with."

It can't be so. I've heard way too many climate prophets crying out about how the seas are dying.

[Jhadur]

All the salted clams are onshore eating each other?

[Carriage Hill]

“...8-inch silver fish...”

Big darned sardines. I don’t like them, but use anchovie paste in some pasta sauces.

[HIDEK6]

This is not a bad thing.

[stars & stripes forever]

[combat_boots]

I have enough trouble with bird food. I don’t want to get hit with a fish.

[combat_boots]

Bird doo

Dang iPad

[Carriage Hill]

Sharks in Midtown!
Great Caesar’s Ghost!

[blueunicorn6]

“Bogey at 8 o’clock!”

“I’m on him!”

“Guns! Guns! Guns! Damnit! Smith loaded Anchovies!”

[njslim]

Sounds fishy

Sorry Charlie ........

[Noumenon]

I told them to hold the ‘chovies.

[oldasrocks]

I have pizzas in the freezer ready for anchovies.

[Albion Wilde]

[telescope115]

Anchovia.

[unread]

"Well, of course they're falling out of the sky. They don't have wings."

Yeah...that makes sense to me.. :)

[Organic Panic]

Once they start rotting the place will smell better.

[willk]

Anchovies falling from the sky. Crap all over the ground.