Fish in the Bay – July Aug 2025, Bair Island = Mystery Island.
Bair Island, a restored marshland off the shores of Redwood City and San Carlos, is the latest new area we...
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Bair Island, a restored marshland off the shores of Redwood City and San Carlos, is the latest new area we...
After several visits to San Pablo Bay in the north, we returned to Lower South Bay marshes in early June. ...
Part 4 of the San Pablo Bay Trawls. This is the fourth and final installment of our first round of...
This is part 3 of the San Pablo Bay series. We continue our journey around San Pablo Bay. This time...
This is part 2 of a 4-part San Pablo Bay series. The UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry & Fish Ecology Lab...
New WRMP San Pablo Bay trawls. The UC Davis OGFL crew performed fish assessments of restored marsh areas around San...
Extra Baby Fish Month! It happened again. Every once in a while, we see a bigger goby baby boom in...
The WRMP trawl team celebrates a smooth day on the water at Alviso Marsh with some fine tunes & marshified...
The UC Davis OGFL crew performed their second fish assessment of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in early May. They...
Part 2 of the April report. 1. Corbula Clams. The main stem of Coyote Creek between UCoy2 and Coy1...
Spring is here – technically it arrived on March 20th. Returning warmth is slowly awakening the marshes … just in...
The UC Davis OGFL lab was contracted by the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) to perform fish monitoring surveys at...
As often happens, there was no room for discussion about bottom fishes and bugs in Part 1 of the March...
The Shaduary Shad population explosion ended by early March. Only a small remnant of stragglers remained in the area. Unfortunately,...
This is a third and final report on 2025 Longfin Smelt Broodstock Trawls. I was not present at most of...
Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls continued over numerous days through January, February, and even into the first weeks of March. I...
I accompanied the UC Davis crew on a “Longfin Smelt Broodstock” trawling expedition in north San Francisco Bay in December...
This is the rest of the February report – Fishes, bugs, plus a few other items that didn’t fit into...
Good news? Or Bad News? Shad population explosion has spilled over into February. January counts broke previous records: 533 American...
This second part covers additional fishes and bugs that were not included in the January report. 1. Colorful Clupeiforms. Wintertime...
January 2025 was a very disappointing month for Longfin Smelt. Longfin spawning season started well enough. November and December numbers...
Happy New Year! This post mainly focuses on the latest return migration of spawning Longfin Smelt – a now an...
October was a hot weekend. Air temperature was beastly. Water temperatures in October were close to 2 degrees C warmer...
September report continued … 1. Gobies & Sculpin. Something odd is happening in Goby World. All numbers were down compared...
A belated September report … The overall raw fish count increased, but this was not good news. Almost 50% of...
Once again, fish totals were low in August. We presume this is the lingering El Nino effect. Hopefully, a flip...
This is a special report to consolidate recent observations and discoveries regarding light refracting-properties we see so often in Clupeiform...
This second part of the July report covers some additional random items. Spawning Anchovy sex ratio Water Color Update for...
I suppose we could call this the “slow summer” or maybe the “warm summer.” Fish counts remain low compared to...
This is part 2 of the June report. – These are additional observations that couldn’t be squeezed into the initial...