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...
Part 2 of the January report covers all the other interesting fishes and bugs. Seven atmospheric river storms that swept...
The disastrous San Francisco Bay Red Tide of August 2022 is now fading into memory. The most crushing long-lasting effect...
In response to concerns about fish kills from the July-September Red Tides in Central and South San Francisco Bay, I...
A slightly belated report from August trawls. At the time of this report, we were not yet aware of Red...
This is a Fish in the Bay special report to document observations of water color in Lower South San Francisco...
Belated report: This Clupeiform color change experiment was conducted in December but never reported. This is part of my longstanding...
Record-breaking Palaemon Shrimp month: almost 13,000 were caught in July. The previous record monthly catch was in November 2021 when...
The Anchovy population just exploded in Lower South SF Bay. The monthly totals in April and May were 29 and...
As reported last month, the early April trawls captured “Traditional Baby Fish Month.” But with only 721 babies, it was...
February was another great month if you like small pelagic bait fishes. … And, who doesn’t? The February Longfin Smelt...
Good News! Our streak of phenomenal finfish production continues. This time last year, we were marveling over the uncharacteristic boost...
2021 was a very good year in Lower South SF Bay (LSB) – for most fishes. Many records were broken,...
The first spawning-ready Longfin Smelt of the 2021/22 spawning season have been detected. This typically happens in December, but only...
Happy New Year 2022. I am thinking about 2021 in review, but at the same time, I am still catching...
Trawl map. The results from October trawls were a mix of good and bad news on several levels. Bay-side...
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this second installment, we examine some of the fishes in Alviso Slough...
Trawl map. We are continuing to experience a very good Anchovy year. The 2021 total is on track to possibly...
Anchovies are Spawning again in San Francisco Bay! Our monthly Anchovy count jumped from 22 in May (with 17 of...
Trawl map. We caught a lot of baby fish in March; more shrimp than normal as well. The Pacific Ocean...
Trawl map. Good news, a new season of spawning fish arrived! Read on. Bay-side stations trawling results. Rare, odd-ball...
Sunrise near station Coy4 on January 30th, 2021 I had some odds-and-ends left to report from the January trawls. Beautiful...
Trawl map. Good news first: 1126 Anchovies! That is the biggest January catch of Anchovies since 2014. 465 Longfin Smelt...
Longfin trawl results from January 2nd & 3rd. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21, week three. By this point, over 100...