Fish in the Bay – September 2022, part 2 – Seaweed & Seagrass Beds inhibit Red Tides!
This is a follow-up post regarding Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and the recent H. akashiwo red tide in San Francisco...
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...
Schematic distribution of the 9-10 July shark catch: 20 Leopards + 2 Brown Smoothhounds. Our block-buster shark year continues. By...
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...
SF Bay fishes are very active in winter through spring. Charismatic pelagic fishes like Longfin Smelt, Anchovies, Herring, Topsmelt, and...
Happy New Year! The new word for 2022 is “Upogebia,” aka Mud Shrimp. We caught our first Upogebia in Pond...
The first spawning-ready Longfin Smelt of the 2021/22 spawning season have been detected. This typically happens in December, but only...
This is a Fish in the Bay special Alert: Anchovy spawning has been confirmed in Lower South San Francisco Bay....