Fish in the Bay. WRMP, Napa-Sonoma Wetlands Review – 2025.
This report is a brief “2025 Year-in-Review” for the Napa-Sonoma Marsh trawls. Much of this is adapted from a webinar...
This report is a brief “2025 Year-in-Review” for the Napa-Sonoma Marsh trawls. Much of this is adapted from a webinar...
Merry Fishmas! This is a small update from Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls that the UC Davis crew has been conducting...
After several visits to San Pablo Bay in the north, we returned to Lower South Bay marshes in early June. ...
Part 4 of the San Pablo Bay Trawls. This is the fourth and final installment of our first round of...
This is part 3 of the San Pablo Bay series. We continue our journey around San Pablo Bay. This time...
This is part 2 of a 4-part San Pablo Bay series. The UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry & Fish Ecology Lab...
The UC Davis OGFL crew performed their second fish assessment of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in early May. They...
Part 2 of the April report. 1. Corbula Clams. The main stem of Coyote Creek between UCoy2 and Coy1...
Spring is here – technically it arrived on March 20th. Returning warmth is slowly awakening the marshes … just in...
The UC Davis OGFL lab was contracted by the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) to perform fish monitoring surveys at...
The Shaduary Shad population explosion ended by early March. Only a small remnant of stragglers remained in the area. Unfortunately,...
This is a third and final report on 2025 Longfin Smelt Broodstock Trawls. I was not present at most of...
Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls continued over numerous days through January, February, and even into the first weeks of March. I...
I accompanied the UC Davis crew on a “Longfin Smelt Broodstock” trawling expedition in north San Francisco Bay in December...
This is the rest of the February report – Fishes, bugs, plus a few other items that didn’t fit into...
Good news? Or Bad News? Shad population explosion has spilled over into February. January counts broke previous records: 533 American...
January 2025 was a very disappointing month for Longfin Smelt. Longfin spawning season started well enough. November and December numbers...
Happy New Year! This post mainly focuses on the latest return migration of spawning Longfin Smelt – a now an...
October was a hot weekend. Air temperature was beastly. Water temperatures in October were close to 2 degrees C warmer...
This is a Fish in the Bay special Alert: Anchovy spawning has been confirmed in Lower South San Francisco Bay....