Fish in the Bay – May 2025, WRMP San Pablo Bay Trawls, Part 3 – Gallinas Creek to Hamilton Wetlands.
This is part 3 of the San Pablo Bay series. We continue our journey around San Pablo Bay. This time...
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...
New WRMP San Pablo Bay trawls. The UC Davis OGFL crew performed fish assessments of restored marsh areas around San...
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...
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...
Relatively few fish overall. May totals were generally not the lowest ever, but these numbers were reminiscent of low fish...
This is part two of the April report. Part one covered “Baby Fish Month” which mainly pertains to the April...
As of March, we were still experiencing a welcome extended rainy spring. In theory, the additional rainwater flushing should be...
This is part two of the February blog. The February flush and the resulting salinity drop scattered most of our...
Part 2 of the January 2024 report: 1. Green water & some reddish fish in Artesian Slough. Clear green water...
Our first trawls of the new year were fairly spectacular for a mid-January: 731 Longfin Smelt. – This month alone...
This is a pelagic fish holiday special. Longfin Smelt and Pacific Herring have arrived in preparation for mid-winter spawning. Young...
Winter fishes arrive as weather cools. This creates a complicated picture in November. Many summertime fishes linger as Longfins, Herring,...
Several October spoilers were given in the previous post. Much more remains to be reported. We will only cover a...
A belated September fish report: I missed September trawls, but Sami, Niko, and Janai sent me some photos. I got...
More baby fishes showed up in June! This included 60 baby Longfin Smelt and 178 baby Starry Flounder which is...
More baby fish showed up in May. For want of a better term, this was an “Extra Baby Fish Month.”...
April is “Traditional Baby Fish Month.” The tradition is fairly new in Lower South San Francisco Bay. New for us,...
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...
The disastrous San Francisco Bay Red Tide of August 2022 is now fading into memory. The most crushing long-lasting effect...
March was an unusual month that we still have not completely figured out. We are in the start of a...
February was another great month if you like small pelagic bait fishes. … And, who doesn’t? The February Longfin Smelt...