Fish in the Bay – May 2025, Extra Baby Fish Month
Extra Baby Fish Month! It happened again. Every once in a while, we see a bigger goby baby boom in...
News related to Hobbs Lab work
The UC Davis OGFL lab was contracted by the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) to perform fish monitoring surveys at...
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...
Good news? Or Bad News? Shad population explosion has spilled over into February. January counts broke previous records: 533 American...
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...
The OGFL has contributed scientific information that was instrumental to the listing and is conducting research to identify conservation measures...
Through Fish in the Bay, the OGFL shares updates on our research, stories from the field, and key findings that...
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...
El Nino officially ended in May, but effects on fishes linger. Overall fish totals remain low – with one...
Relatively few fish overall. May totals were generally not the lowest ever, but these numbers were reminiscent of low fish...
This is part two of the April report. Part one covered “Baby Fish Month” which mainly pertains to the April...
Once again, it is that time of year: Baby Fish Month! Hundreds to thousands of tiny baby “unidentified” gobies traditionally...
As of March, we were still experiencing a welcome extended rainy spring. In theory, the additional rainwater flushing should be...
This is part two of the February blog. The February flush and the resulting salinity drop scattered most of our...