Fish in the Bay – Special Report, The Year of the Shark – 2022.
Schematic distribution of the 9-10 July shark catch: 20 Leopards + 2 Brown Smoothhounds. Our block-buster shark year continues. By...
Fish in the Bay – Special Report, Color Change Experiment #7
Belated report: This Clupeiform color change experiment was conducted in December but never reported. This is part of my longstanding...
Fish in the Bay – July 2022, Palaemon Shrimp take over.
Record-breaking Palaemon Shrimp month: almost 13,000 were caught in July. The previous record monthly catch was in November 2021 when...
Fish in the Bay – June 2022, Supplemental Report, Fishes & Other Critters.
By Luca Sartori, California State Maritime Academy Class of 2025. https://www.csum.edu/ Editor’s note: Luca is spending his summer internship developing...
Fish in the Bay – June 2022, Record Anchovies and Gobies!
The fishes are now solidly in their summertime regime: Anchovies, Gobies, baby Sharks, and Bat Rays. Cool water fishes have...
Fish in the Bay – Alert! The 2022 Anchovy Spawn has Begun!
The Anchovy population just exploded in Lower South SF Bay. The monthly totals in April and May were 29 and...
Fish in the Bay – May 2022, Part 2: Leopard Shark Baby Boom.
These are additional notes from the May trawls. As always, there are so many critters to discuss and so little...
Fish in the Bay – May 2022: Big Baby Fish Month!
As reported last month, the early April trawls captured “Traditional Baby Fish Month.” But with only 721 babies, it was...
Fish in the Bay – April 2022, Part 2: Supplemental Report – The Bestiary.
Random observations from April trawls in Lower South San Francisco Bay. These were a series of Facebook posts that didn’t...
Fish in the Bay – April 2022, Part 1: Traditional Baby Fish Month?
Long-time readers will know that April is “Baby Fish Month” in Lower South SF Bay. Larvae of gobies and a...
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