Fish in the Bay – March 2025. Baby Fishes & Interesting Oddballs
The Shaduary Shad population explosion ended by early March. Only a small remnant of stragglers remained in the area. Unfortunately,...
Fish in the Bay – Special Report: Lower South Bay Broodstock Trawls, Jan-Feb 2025 – Pictures at an Exhibition, A Fish Opera.
This is a third and final report on 2025 Longfin Smelt Broodstock Trawls. I was not present at most of...
Fish in the Bay – February 2024, Freshwater Flush & a Later Red Tide.
February trawls were conducted on 10 and 11 February just after two atmospheric rivers dumped a good amount of rain. ...
Fish in the Bay – January 2023, Part 1 – Atmospheric River Blowout.
Heavy cold rain drenched us on January 14th and 15th. We were under at least the sixth Atmospheric River that...
Fish in the Bay – February 2021: Tales from the Coral Reef and the Spawning Ground.
Trawl map. Good news, a new season of spawning fish arrived! Read on. Bay-side stations trawling results. Rare, odd-ball...
Fish in the Bay – March 2020: Spring Spawns – Part 1
I am social-isolating and self-sheltering to maximum extent possible. Yet another naturally-mutated virus popped up and potentially threatens to mow...
Fish in the Bay – January 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Anchovy Spawn, a belated report.
Hi everyone. The UC Davis/Hobbs Lab team was back again for March otter trawls in Lower South Bay this past...
Fish in the Bay – January 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Parasite Paradise.
Field notes from the dark underbelly of the Bay: Folks, I must do a short note about fish parasites. This...
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