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...
This is part 2 of a 4-part San Pablo Bay series. The UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry & Fish Ecology Lab...
The UC Davis OGFL crew performed their second fish assessment of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in early May. They...
The Shaduary Shad population explosion ended by early March. Only a small remnant of stragglers remained in the area. Unfortunately,...
I suppose we could call this the “slow summer” or maybe the “warm summer.” Fish counts remain low compared to...
This is part 2 of the June report. – These are additional observations that couldn’t be squeezed into the initial...
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...
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...
Part 2 of the January 2024 report: 1. Green water & some reddish fish in Artesian Slough. Clear green water...
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...
Part 2 of the January report covers all the other interesting fishes and bugs. Seven atmospheric river storms that swept...
We trawled in cold and intermittent rain on December 10th and 11th. This seasonal weather change is a very good...
The disastrous San Francisco Bay Red Tide of August 2022 is now fading into memory. The most crushing long-lasting effect...
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...
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...
March was an unusual month that we still have not completely figured out. We are in the start of a...
SF Bay fishes are very active in winter through spring. Charismatic pelagic fishes like Longfin Smelt, Anchovies, Herring, Topsmelt, and...
Happy New Year 2022. I am thinking about 2021 in review, but at the same time, I am still catching...
Trawl map. The results from October trawls were a mix of good and bad news on several levels. Bay-side...
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...
Hello folks. From mid-August thru mid-September, the UC Davis OG Fish Lab did something very different. With additional funding from...
Trawl map. May Trawls. May is typically a low-fish transition month between “Baby Fish Month” of April and summertime Anchovies. ...
Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Two major trends continued in October: ...
Hello again. This is a bit of an “odds and ends” clean up post. I was unable to join the...
Trawl map. Bay-side stations trawling results. Upstream of Railroad Bridge. Our July trawling weekend was quite an experience. ...