Fish in the Bay – July 2023, Record Starry Year
Record Starry Year! As reported earlier, the year-to-date Starry count had already exceeded the previous record year as of June,...
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...
Cold rain continued to fall as Atmospheric Rivers blew in from the ocean throughout January and February, and even through...
We trawled in cold and intermittent rain on December 10th and 11th. This seasonal weather change is a very good...
Schematic distribution of the 9-10 July shark catch: 20 Leopards + 2 Brown Smoothhounds. Our block-buster shark year continues. By...
Record-breaking Palaemon Shrimp month: almost 13,000 were caught in July. The previous record monthly catch was in November 2021 when...
The fishes are now solidly in their summertime regime: Anchovies, Gobies, baby Sharks, and Bat Rays. Cool water fishes have...
The Anchovy population just exploded in Lower South SF Bay. The monthly totals in April and May were 29 and...
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...
Trawl map. Good News! The summer 2021 Anchovy spawn continues. And, we found more bryozoan reef and two new interesting...
Trawl map. June Trawls. The summertime Anchovy spawn commenced in June: see previous Anchovy Alert blog post – http://www.ogfishlab.com/2021/06/05/fish-in-the-bay-june-2021-anchovy-alert-spawning-anchovies-have-returned-to-lower-south-san-francisco-bay/. This...
Trawl map. April is “Baby Fish Month.” We caught almost 1,900 unidentifiable baby fish. Most of these tiny babies were...
Longfin trawl results from December 27th& 28th. Longfin Smelt Broodstock Collection. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21 continued through the last...
Trawl map. A Longfin Smelt “Alert” was posted earlier concerning egg-bearing Longfins we caught in December. This post addresses all...
This is part two of a combined May – June report. Part one examined the massive Crangon shrimp recruitment explosion...
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...
December trawls: Jon Kuntz was on lines and net duty. Happy New Year! I am catching up on December reporting. ...
This is part 2 from our latest trawling weekend, 5 & 6 October. See previous post for datasheets. Bay Study. ...
We had another good trawling weekend in August despite warm water and plummeting Dissolved Oxygen (DO). Dr. Hobbs joined...
It was another mixed-up weekend in July owing to extreme summer tides and some rough afternoon weather that preempted trawling...
I joined the UC Davis / Hobbs Lab for a regular set of Otter Trawls on May 5th. Last week’s...
March fish report: Atmospheric rivers and freshwater flushing continue to influence critters in the Bay. I am coming to the...
Report from Sunday trawling. UC Davis Sunday trawls motor through waters east of the railroad bridge. Fresher water fish and...