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. ...
Extra Baby Fish Month! It happened again. Every once in a while, we see a bigger goby baby boom in...
The UC Davis OGFL lab was contracted by the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) to perform fish monitoring surveys at...
This is the rest of the February report – Fishes, bugs, plus a few other items that didn’t fit into...
I suppose we could call this the “slow summer” or maybe the “warm summer.” Fish counts remain low compared to...
This is part two of the April report. Part one covered “Baby Fish Month” which mainly pertains to the April...
The big story for August is that another 464 baby Starries were caught. When added to all the Starries caught...
More baby fishes showed up in June! This included 60 baby Longfin Smelt and 178 baby Starry Flounder which is...
The fishes are now solidly in their summertime regime: Anchovies, Gobies, baby Sharks, and Bat Rays. Cool water fishes have...
SF Bay fishes are very active in winter through spring. Charismatic pelagic fishes like Longfin Smelt, Anchovies, Herring, Topsmelt, and...
Hello folks. From mid-August thru mid-September, the UC Davis OG Fish Lab did something very different. With additional funding from...
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...
Trawl map. November trawls confirmed that winter arrived in Lower South Bay: Total fish counts dropped from over 7,900 in...
This post is a cleanup of a few ongoing issues. The Shimofuri Goby problem. As discussed many times, Shimofuri Gobies...
Hello again. This is a bit of an “odds and ends” clean up post. I was unable to join the...
This is part two of a combined May – June report. Part one examined the massive Crangon shrimp recruitment explosion...
Some additional December observations and 2019 end of year clean up. Fish & Bug Matrix: Six good years of comparable...
Happy Thanksgiving! BE THANKFUL FOR THE RAIN. Cool-season rains were long overdue when we trawled on 9-10 November. The fish...
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...
Hello folks. I joined Jim Hobbs and the UC Davis trawling surveys on Saturday, June 1st. It was a crazy...
20mm trawls on May 11th. I rode along with Dr. Hobbs on both May 4th, for regular monthly otter trawls,...
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...