Fish in the Bay – June 2025, Return to Lower South Bay (LSB).
After several visits to San Pablo Bay in the north, we returned to Lower South Bay marshes in early June. ...
After several visits to San Pablo Bay in the north, we returned to Lower South Bay marshes in early June. ...
This is a third and final report on 2025 Longfin Smelt Broodstock Trawls. I was not present at most of...
September report continued … 1. Gobies & Sculpin. Something odd is happening in Goby World. All numbers were down compared...
Several October spoilers were given in the previous post. Much more remains to be reported. We will only cover a...
The big story for August is that another 464 baby Starries were caught. When added to all the Starries caught...
Record Starry Year! As reported earlier, the year-to-date Starry count had already exceeded the previous record year as of June,...
Cold rain continued to fall as Atmospheric Rivers blew in from the ocean throughout January and February, and even through...
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...
This is a Fish in the Bay special report to document observations of water color in Lower South San Francisco...
Record-breaking Palaemon Shrimp month: almost 13,000 were caught in July. The previous record monthly catch was in November 2021 when...
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...
Hello folks. From mid-August thru mid-September, the UC Davis OG Fish Lab did something very different. With additional funding from...
Trawl map. Good News! The summer 2021 Anchovy spawn continues. And, we found more bryozoan reef and two new interesting...
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...
Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Anchovies continue to spawn in September! ...
Trawl map. Bay-side stations trawling results. Upstream of Railroad Bridge. Our July trawling weekend was quite an experience. ...
This is part two of a combined May – June report. Part one examined the massive Crangon shrimp recruitment explosion...
It was another mixed-up weekend in July owing to extreme summer tides and some rough afternoon weather that preempted trawling...
Hello folks. I joined Jim Hobbs and the UC Davis trawling surveys on Saturday, June 1st. It was a crazy...
20mm trawls on May 11th. I rode along with Dr. Hobbs on both May 4th, for regular monthly otter trawls,...
First a Special Thanks: I want to acknowledge and thank agencies that continue to support the Hobbs Lab work. 1)...
Hi everyone. I again accompanied the UC Davis / Hobbs team on Saturday, 23 February, for “20-milimeter Larval Fish Trawls.” ...
A fishing update: I went with the Hobbs crew on the deeper water Bay side on 2 September. It is...
Report from Sunday trawling. UC Davis Sunday trawls motor through waters east of the railroad bridge. Fresher water fish and...