Fish in the Bay – December 2020: The Longfin Chronicles, Part 2.
Longfin trawl results from December 27th& 28th. Longfin Smelt Broodstock Collection. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21 continued through the last...
Longfin trawl results from December 27th& 28th. Longfin Smelt Broodstock Collection. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21 continued through the last...
Longfin trawl results from December 20th. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21 has begun. This is the third year that researchers have...
Trawl map. A Longfin Smelt “Alert” was posted earlier concerning egg-bearing Longfins we caught in December. This post addresses all...
Trawl map highlighting the December Longfin Spawning Zone. 1. Background. In 2017, UC Davis researchers first confirmed Longfin Smelt spawning in...
Trawl map. November trawls confirmed that winter arrived in Lower South Bay: Total fish counts dropped from over 7,900 in...
Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Two major trends continued in October: ...
This post is a cleanup of a few ongoing issues. The Shimofuri Goby problem. As discussed many times, Shimofuri Gobies...
Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Anchovies continue to spawn in September! ...
Hello folks. This is the promised Anchovy Spawning Supplement to accompany the regular August Fish in the Bay report. The...
Hello again. This is a bit of an “odds and ends” clean up post. I was unable to join the...
Trawl map. Bay-side stations trawling results. Upstream of Railroad Bridge. Our July trawling weekend was quite an experience. ...
This is a Fish in the Bay special Alert: Anchovy spawning has been confirmed in Lower South San Francisco Bay....
This is part two of a combined May – June report. Part one examined the massive Crangon shrimp recruitment explosion...
To apply, visit: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF03607 Job Announcement The Otolith Geochemistry & Fish Ecology Laboratory (OGFL) at UC Davis (www.ogfishlab.com) has an...
Wilson Xieu, junior specialist at the UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry & Fish Ecology Lab, joined the trawls in May. Photo...
Hello again folks. This is a belated part 2 to the March fish report. Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis forced a hiatus in...
I am social-isolating and self-sheltering to maximum extent possible. Yet another naturally-mutated virus popped up and potentially threatens to mow...
No rain = fewer fish! An unseasonable winter dry spell continues. Lower South Bay continues to get saltier. Based on...
Over this past winter, the OGFL @ UC Davis has been conducting intensive surveys to collect spawning aggregations of San...
Full Moon and perihelion. As mentioned in Part 1, we were experiencing the second or third highest-high tide of the...
Trawl map. Full Moon and perihelion. The Moon set at sunrise as we launched on Saturday. The combination of full...
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America has showcased our recent study that documents Longfin Smelt aggregating and spawning...
The Lab has observed consistent aggregations and recent spawning of/by Longfin Smelt in restored habitats in Lower South San Francisco...
Dr. Lewis will present the Lab’s latest research on San Francisco’s Endangered Fishes to an audience of scientists from around...
Delta Smelt exhibit a diversity of strategies to survive in their dynamic and ever-changing environment. But will it be enough...