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...
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. ...
This is part 3 of the San Pablo Bay series. We continue our journey around San Pablo Bay. This time...
Extra Baby Fish Month! It happened again. Every once in a while, we see a bigger goby baby boom in...
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...
The UC Davis OGFL lab was contracted by the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) to perform fish monitoring surveys at...
Merry Fishmas everyone! I fell horribly behind in my fish reporting, so I am combining Fishmas with the November blog. ...
October was a hot weekend. Air temperature was beastly. Water temperatures in October were close to 2 degrees C warmer...
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...
I suppose we could call this the “slow summer” or maybe the “warm summer.” Fish counts remain low compared to...
El Nino officially ended in May, but effects on fishes linger. Overall fish totals remain low – with one...
We caught 36 Bat Rays in November. It was unexpected to see so many this late in the year. With...
Winter fishes arrive as weather cools. This creates a complicated picture in November. Many summertime fishes linger as Longfins, Herring,...
Several October spoilers were given in the previous post. Much more remains to be reported. We will only cover a...
A belated September fish report: I missed September trawls, but Sami, Niko, and Janai sent me some photos. I got...
The big story for August is that another 464 baby Starries were caught. When added to all the Starries caught...
Record Starry Year! As reported earlier, the year-to-date Starry count had already exceeded the previous record year as of June,...
More baby fishes showed up in June! This included 60 baby Longfin Smelt and 178 baby Starry Flounder which is...
More baby fish showed up in May. For want of a better term, this was an “Extra Baby Fish Month.”...
In response to concerns about fish kills from the July-September Red Tides in Central and South San Francisco Bay, I...
As we are all now aware, single-celled phytoplankton called “Heterosigma akashiwo” bloomed into a dark reddish-brown stain across much of...
A slightly belated report from August trawls. At the time of this report, we were not yet aware of Red...
This is a Fish in the Bay special report to document observations of water color in Lower South San Francisco...
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...
These are additional notes from the May trawls. As always, there are so many critters to discuss and so little...
Long-time readers will know that April is “Baby Fish Month” in Lower South SF Bay. Larvae of gobies and a...
SF Bay fishes are very active in winter through spring. Charismatic pelagic fishes like Longfin Smelt, Anchovies, Herring, Topsmelt, and...