Fish in the Bay – January 2021, part 1: Winter Fishes = Longfin, Shad, Herring, & Anchovy(?).
Trawl map. Good news first: 1126 Anchovies! That is the biggest January catch of Anchovies since 2014. 465 Longfin Smelt...
Trawl map. Good news first: 1126 Anchovies! That is the biggest January catch of Anchovies since 2014. 465 Longfin Smelt...
Longfin trawl results from January 2nd & 3rd. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21, week three. By this point, over 100...
Longfin trawl results from December 27th& 28th. Longfin Smelt Broodstock Collection. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21 continued through the last...
Longfin trawl results from December 20th. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21 has begun. This is the third year that researchers have...
Trawl map. A Longfin Smelt “Alert” was posted earlier concerning egg-bearing Longfins we caught in December. This post addresses all...
Trawl map. November trawls confirmed that winter arrived in Lower South Bay: Total fish counts dropped from over 7,900 in...
Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Two major trends continued in October: ...
Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Anchovies continue to spawn in September! ...
Hello folks. This is the promised Anchovy Spawning Supplement to accompany the regular August Fish in the Bay report. The...
Hello again. This is a bit of an “odds and ends” clean up post. I was unable to join the...
Trawl map. Bay-side stations trawling results. Upstream of Railroad Bridge. Our July trawling weekend was quite an experience. ...
This is a Fish in the Bay special Alert: Anchovy spawning has been confirmed in Lower South San Francisco Bay....
Hello again folks. This is a belated part 2 to the March fish report. Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis forced a hiatus in...
No rain = fewer fish! An unseasonable winter dry spell continues. Lower South Bay continues to get saltier. Based on...
Full Moon and perihelion. As mentioned in Part 1, we were experiencing the second or third highest-high tide of the...
December trawls: Jon Kuntz was on lines and net duty. Happy New Year! I am catching up on December reporting. ...
Happy Thanksgiving! BE THANKFUL FOR THE RAIN. Cool-season rains were long overdue when we trawled on 9-10 November. The fish...
I joined the UC Davis trawls on both days of this October’s trawling weekend. … Fish are on the move! ...
I did not join the September trawls, so the photo record is a little sparse. It was an interesting month...
We had another good trawling weekend in August despite warm water and plummeting Dissolved Oxygen (DO). Dr. Hobbs joined...
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,...
I joined the UC Davis / Hobbs Lab for a regular set of Otter Trawls on May 5th. Last week’s...
Happy April! I trawled with the Hobbs team twice this month, so far: Otter trawls conducted on 6 April, and...
First a Special Thanks: I want to acknowledge and thank agencies that continue to support the Hobbs Lab work. 1)...
March fish report: Atmospheric rivers and freshwater flushing continue to influence critters in the Bay. I am coming to the...
Hi everyone. The UC Davis/Hobbs Lab team was back again for March otter trawls in Lower South Bay this past...
Field notes from the dark underbelly of the Bay: Folks, I must do a short note about fish parasites. This...
Wet winter brings more fish! Hello everyone. This is a slightly abbreviated post focusing on the ongoing booming populations of...
