Fish in the Bay – January 2023, Part 2 – The Rest of the Fishes.
Part 2 of the January report covers all the other interesting fishes and bugs. Seven atmospheric river storms that swept...
Fish in the Bay – December 2022 – Rain & Brown Water
We trawled in cold and intermittent rain on December 10th and 11th. This seasonal weather change is a very good...
Fish in the Bay – April 2021: More baby fish.
Trawl map. April is “Baby Fish Month.” We caught almost 1,900 unidentifiable baby fish. Most of these tiny babies were...
Fish in the Bay – January 2021, Part 2: La Nina Skies; shrimp, parasites, and more.
Sunrise near station Coy4 on January 30th, 2021 I had some odds-and-ends left to report from the January trawls. Beautiful...
Fish in the Bay – May & June 2020, part 1: Crangon Shrimp Recruitment Explosion.
Wilson Xieu, junior specialist at the UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry & Fish Ecology Lab, joined the trawls in May. Photo...
Fish in the Bay – March 2020, part 2: The Shrimp Gradient (post SARS-CoV-2 lock-down edition).
Hello again folks. This is a belated part 2 to the March fish report. Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis forced a hiatus in...
Fish in the Bay – February 2020: Comb Jelly Explosion!
No rain = fewer fish! An unseasonable winter dry spell continues. Lower South Bay continues to get saltier. Based on...
Fish in the Bay – January 2020: Part 1, Pregnant Sculpin, Saltwater Oddballs, and a Shad Experiment.
Trawl map. Full Moon and perihelion. The Moon set at sunrise as we launched on Saturday. The combination of full...
Fish in the Bay – December 2019: Part 1, Rains bring Mysids and other critters.
December trawls: Jon Kuntz was on lines and net duty. Happy New Year! I am catching up on December reporting. ...
Fish in the Bay – October 2019, UC Davis Trawls (Part2) – Big Fish in a Little Pond; plus a Shrimp update.
This is part 2 from our latest trawling weekend, 5 & 6 October. See previous post for datasheets. Bay Study. ...
Fish in the Bay – April 2019, UC Davis Trawls – April is baby fish month (Part 2).
Happy April part 2 (now a little belated)! I went trawling with the Hobbs team on three weekends in April...
Fish in the Bay – December 2018 UC Davis Trawls – Crangon 2018: Year of the Crangon!
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2019. Good News: We wrapped up December with an unbelievable Crangon brooding event. This was...
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