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 3 of the San Pablo Bay series. We continue our journey around San Pablo Bay. This time...
The UC Davis OGFL crew performed their second fish assessment of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in early May. They...
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...
This second part covers additional fishes and bugs that were not included in the January report. 1. Colorful Clupeiforms. Wintertime...
I suppose we could call this the “slow summer” or maybe the “warm summer.” Fish counts remain low compared to...
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.”...
The fishes are now solidly in their summertime regime: Anchovies, Gobies, baby Sharks, and Bat Rays. Cool water fishes have...
As reported last month, the early April trawls captured “Traditional Baby Fish Month.” But with only 721 babies, it was...
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...
Sunrise near station Coy4 on January 30th, 2021 I had some odds-and-ends left to report from the January trawls. Beautiful...
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...
I joined the UC Davis trawls on both days of this October’s trawling weekend. … Fish are on the move! ...
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...
March fish report: Atmospheric rivers and freshwater flushing continue to influence critters in the Bay. I am coming to the...