Fish in the Bay – September 2021: Operation Guadalupe, Part 3.
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...
Trawl map. May Trawls. May is typically a low-fish transition month between “Baby Fish Month” of April and summertime Anchovies. ...
Trawl map. April is “Baby Fish Month.” We caught almost 1,900 unidentifiable baby fish. Most of these tiny babies were...
Trawl map. Good news first: 1126 Anchovies! That is the biggest January catch of Anchovies since 2014. 465 Longfin Smelt...
Longfin trawl results from January 2nd & 3rd. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21, week three. By this point, over 100...
Longfin trawl results from December 27th& 28th. Longfin Smelt Broodstock Collection. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21 continued through the last...
Longfin trawl results from December 20th. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21 has begun. This is the third year that researchers have...
Trawl map. A Longfin Smelt “Alert” was posted earlier concerning egg-bearing Longfins we caught in December. This post addresses all...
Trawl map highlighting the December Longfin Spawning Zone. 1. Background. In 2017, UC Davis researchers first confirmed Longfin Smelt spawning in...
I am social-isolating and self-sheltering to maximum extent possible. Yet another naturally-mutated virus popped up and potentially threatens to mow...
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...
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...
I joined the UC Davis trawls on both days of this October’s trawling weekend. … Fish are on the move! ...
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...
Wet winter brings more fish! Hello everyone. This is a slightly abbreviated post focusing on the ongoing booming populations of...
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2019. Good News: We wrapped up December with an unbelievable Crangon brooding event. This was...