Fish in the Bay – March 2023, Freshwater Flushing & Spawning Fishes!
Atmospheric rivers and rainwater flushing continued through March. This extended rainy season is a very welcome change after at least...
Atmospheric rivers and rainwater flushing continued through March. This extended rainy season is a very welcome change after at least...
Cold rain continued to fall as Atmospheric Rivers blew in from the ocean throughout January and February, and even through...
Part 2 of the January report covers all the other interesting fishes and bugs. Seven atmospheric river storms that swept...
Heavy cold rain drenched us on January 14th and 15th. We were under at least the sixth Atmospheric River that...
We trawled in cold and intermittent rain on December 10th and 11th. This seasonal weather change is a very good...
What caused H. akashiwo to bloom into a red tide frenzy in San Francisco Bay last summer? Another bloom like...
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...
This is a follow-up post regarding Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and the recent H. akashiwo red tide in San Francisco...
As we are all now aware, single-celled phytoplankton called “Heterosigma akashiwo” bloomed into a dark reddish-brown stain across much of...
A slightly belated report from August trawls. At the time of this report, we were not yet aware of Red...
Folks, the Red Tide continues to sweep across portions of North and Central San Francisco Bay. Areas affected by dark...
This is a Fish in the Bay special report to document observations of water color in Lower South San Francisco...
Schematic distribution of the 9-10 July shark catch: 20 Leopards + 2 Brown Smoothhounds. Our block-buster shark year continues. By...
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...
By Luca Sartori, California State Maritime Academy Class of 2025. https://www.csum.edu/ Editor’s note: Luca is spending his summer internship developing...
The fishes are now solidly in their summertime regime: Anchovies, Gobies, baby Sharks, and Bat Rays. Cool water fishes have...
Random observations from April trawls in Lower South San Francisco Bay. These were a series of Facebook posts that didn’t...
Long-time readers will know that April is “Baby Fish Month” in Lower South SF Bay. Larvae of gobies and a...
March was an unusual month that we still have not completely figured out. We are in the start of a...
SF Bay fishes are very active in winter through spring. Charismatic pelagic fishes like Longfin Smelt, Anchovies, Herring, Topsmelt, and...
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...
Happy New Year! The new word for 2022 is “Upogebia,” aka Mud Shrimp. We caught our first Upogebia in Pond...
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...
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...