Fish in the Bay – September 2022, part 2 – Seaweed & Seagrass Beds inhibit Red Tides!
This is a follow-up post regarding Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and the recent H. akashiwo red tide in San Francisco...
This is a follow-up post regarding Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and the recent H. akashiwo red tide in San Francisco...
A slightly belated report from August trawls. At the time of this report, we were not yet aware of Red...
Folks, the Red Tide continues to sweep across portions of North and Central San Francisco Bay. Areas affected by dark...
This is a Fish in the Bay special report to document observations of water color in Lower South San Francisco...
Schematic distribution of the 9-10 July shark catch: 20 Leopards + 2 Brown Smoothhounds. Our block-buster shark year continues. By...
Belated report: This Clupeiform color change experiment was conducted in December but never reported. This is part of my longstanding...
Record-breaking Palaemon Shrimp month: almost 13,000 were caught in July. The previous record monthly catch was in November 2021 when...
By Luca Sartori, California State Maritime Academy Class of 2025. https://www.csum.edu/ Editor’s note: Luca is spending his summer internship developing...
The Anchovy population just exploded in Lower South SF Bay. The monthly totals in April and May were 29 and...
These are additional notes from the May trawls. As always, there are so many critters to discuss and so little...
As reported last month, the early April trawls captured “Traditional Baby Fish Month.” But with only 721 babies, it was...
Long-time readers will know that April is “Baby Fish Month” in Lower South SF Bay. Larvae of gobies and a...
February was another great month if you like small pelagic bait fishes. … And, who doesn’t? The February Longfin Smelt...
Good News! Our streak of phenomenal finfish production continues. This time last year, we were marveling over the uncharacteristic boost...
Happy New Year! The new word for 2022 is “Upogebia,” aka Mud Shrimp. We caught our first Upogebia in Pond...
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