Fish in the Bay – February 2020: Comb Jelly Explosion!
No rain = fewer fish! An unseasonable winter dry spell continues. Lower South Bay continues to get saltier. Based on...
Posts about fieldwork
No rain = fewer fish! An unseasonable winter dry spell continues. Lower South Bay continues to get saltier. Based on...
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...
Some additional December observations and 2019 end of year clean up. Fish & Bug Matrix: Six good years of comparable...
December trawls: Jon Kuntz was on lines and net duty. Happy New Year! I am catching up on December reporting. ...
Hello again everyone. If you live in the Bay Area you are aware that we had a lot of rain...
Happy Thanksgiving! BE THANKFUL FOR THE RAIN. Cool-season rains were long overdue when we trawled on 9-10 November. The fish...
This is part 2 from our latest trawling weekend, 5 & 6 October. See previous post for datasheets. Bay Study. ...
I joined the UC Davis trawls on both days of this October’s trawling weekend. … Fish are on the move! ...
I did not join the September trawls, so the photo record is a little sparse. It was an interesting month...
We had another good trawling weekend in August despite warm water and plummeting Dissolved Oxygen (DO). Dr. Hobbs joined...
It was another mixed-up weekend in July owing to extreme summer tides and some rough afternoon weather that preempted trawling...
Hello folks. I joined Jim Hobbs and the UC Davis trawling surveys on Saturday, June 1st. It was a crazy...
20mm trawls on May 11th. I rode along with Dr. Hobbs on both May 4th, for regular monthly otter trawls,...
I joined the UC Davis / Hobbs Lab for a regular set of Otter Trawls on May 5th. Last week’s...
Happy April part 2 (now a little belated)! I went trawling with the Hobbs team on three weekends in April...
Happy April! I trawled with the Hobbs team twice this month, so far: Otter trawls conducted on 6 April, and...
First a Special Thanks: I want to acknowledge and thank agencies that continue to support the Hobbs Lab work. 1)...
March fish report: Atmospheric rivers and freshwater flushing continue to influence critters in the Bay. I am coming to the...
Hi everyone. The UC Davis/Hobbs Lab team was back again for March otter trawls in Lower South Bay this past...
Hi everyone. I again accompanied the UC Davis / Hobbs team on Saturday, 23 February, for “20-milimeter Larval Fish Trawls.” ...
Folks, I write as the Atmospheric River pounds the Bay Area with much needed rain. Urgent flood alerts have just...
Field notes from the dark underbelly of the Bay: Folks, I must do a short note about fish parasites. This...
Wet winter brings more fish! Hello everyone. This is a slightly abbreviated post focusing on the ongoing booming populations of...
This is another special edition of Fish in the Bay. While most of us Christmas shop or prepare to leave...
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2019. Good News: We wrapped up December with an unbelievable Crangon brooding event. This was...
Hi Everyone. This posting is a mixed bag of loose ends from November and early December. (Monthly Data Tables are...
An early Merry Christmas! Longfin Smelt returned to Lower South San Francisco Bay! First arrival of Longfins occurred in October...
The Hobbs Lab recently participated in the annual Bodega Bay field trip, part of the Laboratory in Biology and Conservation...
This is a special edition of “Fish in the Bay” to further develop the San Francisco Bay Colorful Anchovy Hypothesis. ...