Fish in the Bay – April 2025: WRMP – Eden Landing Trawls.
The UC Davis OGFL lab was contracted by the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) to perform fish monitoring surveys at...
The UC Davis OGFL lab was contracted by the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) to perform fish monitoring surveys at...
As often happens, there was no room for discussion about bottom fishes and bugs in Part 1 of the March...
Once again, fish totals were low in August. We presume this is the lingering El Nino effect. Hopefully, a flip...
This is part 2 of the June report. – These are additional observations that couldn’t be squeezed into the initial...
Relatively few fish overall. May totals were generally not the lowest ever, but these numbers were reminiscent of low fish...
Once again, it is that time of year: Baby Fish Month! Hundreds to thousands of tiny baby “unidentified” gobies traditionally...
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...
Sami and Janai loading the net on Saturday morning. For this second part of the November report, Janai gave us...
This report covers additional observations from October. Musculista senhousia, aka “Asian Date Mussels,” or Arcuatula senhousia, have been showing up...
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,...
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...
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...
The fishes are now solidly in their summertime regime: Anchovies, Gobies, baby Sharks, and Bat Rays. Cool water fishes have...
SF Bay fishes are very active in winter through spring. Charismatic pelagic fishes like Longfin Smelt, Anchovies, Herring, Topsmelt, and...
Happy New Year 2022. I am thinking about 2021 in review, but at the same time, I am still catching...
Trawl map. The results from October trawls were a mix of good and bad news on several levels. Bay-side...
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this second installment, we examine some of the fishes in Alviso Slough...
Hello folks. From mid-August thru mid-September, the UC Davis OG Fish Lab did something very different. With additional funding from...
Trawl map. We are continuing to experience a very good Anchovy year. The 2021 total is on track to possibly...
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. May Trawls. May is typically a low-fish transition month between “Baby Fish Month” of April and summertime Anchovies. ...
Trawl map. April is “Baby Fish Month.” We caught almost 1,900 unidentifiable baby fish. Most of these tiny babies were...
