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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...

Fish in the Bay – June 2025, Return to Lower South Bay (LSB).

After several visits to San Pablo Bay in the north, we returned to Lower South Bay marshes in early June. ...

Fish in the Bay – May/June 2025, WRMP San Pablo Bay Trawls, Part 4 – Wildcat & San Pablo Marshes.

Part 4 of the San Pablo Bay Trawls.  This is the fourth and final installment of our first round of...

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 – 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 – July 2020: Lots of Crangon & Topsmelt, plus a Red Ceramium Bloom.

Trawl map.   Bay-side stations trawling results.   Upstream of Railroad Bridge. Our July trawling weekend was quite an experience. ...

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 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Fish & bug New Year?

March fish report:  Atmospheric rivers and freshwater flushing continue to influence critters in the Bay.  I am coming to the...