Fish in the Bay – Special Report: Lower South Bay Broodstock Trawls, Jan-Feb 2025 – Pictures at an Exhibition, A Fish Opera.
This is a third and final report on 2025 Longfin Smelt Broodstock Trawls. I was not present at most of...
September 2024 Part 2: Goby Faces, Halibut Eyes, Clupeiform Colors, etc.
September report continued … 1. Gobies & Sculpin. Something odd is happening in Goby World. All numbers were down compared...
Fish in the Bay – October 2023, Fall Begins.
Several October spoilers were given in the previous post. Much more remains to be reported. We will only cover a...
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 – 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 – September 2022, Red Tide Emergency Trawls.
As we are all now aware, single-celled phytoplankton called “Heterosigma akashiwo” bloomed into a dark reddish-brown stain across much of...
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 – Special Report: Green Water, 6-7 Aug 2022.
This is a Fish in the Bay special report to document observations of water color in Lower South San Francisco...
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 – 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.
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 – July 2021: Anchovy & Goby Season – Crangon Disappeared!
Trawl map. Good News! The summer 2021 Anchovy spawn continues. And, we found more bryozoan reef and two new interesting...
Fish in the Bay – June 2021: Summer Fishes.
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...
Fish in the Bay – September 2020: Silverside Tsunami, spawning Anchovies & some apex predators.
Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Anchovies continue to spawn in September! ...
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 2: Fishes of June, plus a bonus worm.
This is part two of a combined May – June report. Part one examined the massive Crangon shrimp recruitment explosion...
Fish in the Bay – July 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Brown-back Anchovies and Bat Rays
It was another mixed-up weekend in July owing to extreme summer tides and some rough afternoon weather that preempted trawling...
Fish in the Bay – June 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Freshness Continues
Hello folks. I joined Jim Hobbs and the UC Davis trawling surveys on Saturday, June 1st. It was a crazy...
Fish in the Bay – May 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Just a fun 20mm day in the Bay
20mm trawls on May 11th. I rode along with Dr. Hobbs on both May 4th, for regular monthly otter trawls,...
Fish in the Bay – March 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Save the Whales! Larval fish trawl, plus a Sea Level Rise Rant.
First a Special Thanks: I want to acknowledge and thank agencies that continue to support the Hobbs Lab work. 1)...
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