Fish in the Bay – April 2025, Part 2. Corbula Attack, Gobies, Bottom Fishes, & Tides!
Part 2 of the April report. 1. Corbula Clams. The main stem of Coyote Creek between UCoy2 and Coy1...
Fish in the Bay – April 2025, Traditional Baby Fish Month.
Spring is here – technically it arrived on March 20th. Returning warmth is slowly awakening the marshes … just in...
Fish in the Bay – April 2025: WRMP – Eden Landing Trawls.
The UC Davis OGFL lab was contracted by the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) to perform fish monitoring surveys at...
Fish in the Bay – March 2025, Part2. Bottom fishes & bugs
As often happens, there was no room for discussion about bottom fishes and bugs in Part 1 of the March...
Fish in the Bay – Special Report: Suisun Bay Broodstock Trawls, December 2024.
I accompanied the UC Davis crew on a “Longfin Smelt Broodstock” trawling expedition in north San Francisco Bay in December...
Fish in the Bay – February 2025, Part 2. Bottom Fishes & Bugs in the Valley of the Heart’s Delight.
This is the rest of the February report – Fishes, bugs, plus a few other items that didn’t fit into...
Fish in the Bay – January 2025 Part 2. Other Bugs & Fishes.
This second part covers additional fishes and bugs that were not included in the January report. 1. Colorful Clupeiforms. Wintertime...
Fish in the Bay – August 2024. Bat Ray Care & Feeding – in the Nursery.
Once again, fish totals were low in August. We presume this is the lingering El Nino effect. Hopefully, a flip...
Fish in the Bay – July 2024, El Nino Summer Doldrums.
I suppose we could call this the “slow summer” or maybe the “warm summer.” Fish counts remain low compared to...
Fish in the Bay – June 2024, Part 2. Gobies, Pipefish, & Bugs.
This is part 2 of the June report. – These are additional observations that couldn’t be squeezed into the initial...
Fish in the Bay – March 2024, Spring Flush Continues.
As of March, we were still experiencing a welcome extended rainy spring. In theory, the additional rainwater flushing should be...
Fish in the Bay – February 2024, Part2. Freshwater Flush, continued.
This is part two of the February blog. The February flush and the resulting salinity drop scattered most of our...
Fish in the Bay – November 2023, Part 2 – Micro World.
Sami and Janai loading the net on Saturday morning. For this second part of the November report, Janai gave us...
Fish in the Bay – October 2023, Part 2: Musculista Explosion, Green Water, & Big Brown Birds.
This report covers additional observations from October. Musculista senhousia, aka “Asian Date Mussels,” or Arcuatula senhousia, have been showing up...
Fish in the Bay – August 2023, Starry, Starry Summer!
The big story for August is that another 464 baby Starries were caught. When added to all the Starries caught...
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,...
Fish in the Bay – May 2023, Extra Baby Fish Month.
More baby fish showed up in May. For want of a better term, this was an “Extra Baby Fish Month.”...
Fish in the Bay – April 2023, Traditional Baby Fish Month
April is “Traditional Baby Fish Month.” The tradition is fairly new in Lower South San Francisco Bay. New for us,...
Fish in the Bay – February 2023, Freshwater Flushing Continues.
Cold rain continued to fall as Atmospheric Rivers blew in from the ocean throughout January and February, and even through...
Fish in the Bay – August 2022, Bat Ray Bonanza.
A slightly belated report from August trawls. At the time of this report, we were not yet aware of Red...
Fish in the Bay – July 2022, Palaemon Shrimp take over.
Record-breaking Palaemon Shrimp month: almost 13,000 were caught in July. The previous record monthly catch was in November 2021 when...
Fish in the Bay – May 2022: Big Baby Fish Month!
As reported last month, the early April trawls captured “Traditional Baby Fish Month.” But with only 721 babies, it was...
Fish in the Bay – April 2022, Part 2: Supplemental Report – The Bestiary.
Random observations from April trawls in Lower South San Francisco Bay. These were a series of Facebook posts that didn’t...
Fish in the Bay – January 2022: Anchovies and Longfins, yes! But, no Crangon brooding.
Good News! Our streak of phenomenal finfish production continues. This time last year, we were marveling over the uncharacteristic boost...
Fish in the Bay – October 2021: Longfins Returned. Non-native Silversides & Shimofuris were still out of control.
Trawl map. The results from October trawls were a mix of good and bad news on several levels. Bay-side...
Fish in the Bay – September 2021: Operation Guadalupe, Part 3.
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...
Fish in the Bay – September 2021: Operation Guadalupe, Part 2.
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this second installment, we examine some of the fishes in Alviso Slough...
Fish in the Bay – September 2021: Operation Guadalupe.
Hello folks. From mid-August thru mid-September, the UC Davis OG Fish Lab did something very different. With additional funding from...
Fish in the Bay – November 2020: Cold Snap – Winter Arrives.
Trawl map. November trawls confirmed that winter arrived in Lower South Bay: Total fish counts dropped from over 7,900 in...
Fish in the Bay – October 2020: Anchovy Spawning & Silverside Tsunami Increase.
Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Two major trends continued in October: ...
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