Palaemon macrodactylus

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...

Fish in the Bay – March 2025, Part2. Bottom fishes & bugs

As often happens, there was no room for discussion about bottom fishes and bugs in Part 1 of the March...

Fish in the Bay – August 2024. Bat Ray Care & Feeding – in the Nursery.

Once again, fish totals were low in August.  We presume this is the lingering El Nino effect.  Hopefully, a flip...

Fish in the Bay – June 2024, Part 2. Gobies, Pipefish, & Bugs.

This is part 2 of the June report.  – These are additional observations that couldn’t be squeezed into the initial...

Fish in the Bay – May 2024, El Nino?

Relatively few fish overall.  May totals were generally not the lowest ever, but these numbers were reminiscent of low fish...

Fish in the Bay – April 2024, Traditional Baby Fish Month.

Once again, it is that time of year: Baby Fish Month!  Hundreds to thousands of tiny baby “unidentified” gobies traditionally...

Fish in the Bay – March 2024, Spring Flush Continues.

As of March, we were still experiencing a welcome extended rainy spring.  In theory, the additional rainwater flushing should be...

Fish in the Bay – February 2024, Part2. Freshwater Flush, continued.

This is part two of the February blog.  The February flush and the resulting salinity drop scattered most of our...

Fish in the Bay – November 2023, Part 2 – Micro World.

Sami and Janai loading the net on Saturday morning. For this second part of the November report, Janai gave us...

Fish in the Bay – October 2023, Part 2: Musculista Explosion, Green Water, & Big Brown Birds.

This report covers additional observations from October. Musculista senhousia, aka “Asian Date Mussels,” or Arcuatula senhousia, have been showing up...

Fish in the Bay – August 2023, Starry, Starry Summer!

The big story for August is that another 464 baby Starries were caught.  When added to all the Starries caught...

Fish in the Bay – July 2023, Record Starry Year

Record Starry Year!  As reported earlier, the year-to-date Starry count had already exceeded the previous record year as of June,...

Fish in the Bay – June 2023, Is Summer here yet?

More baby fishes showed up in June!  This included 60 baby Longfin Smelt and 178 baby Starry Flounder which is...

Fish in the Bay – May 2023, Extra Baby Fish Month.

More baby fish showed up in May.  For want of a better term, this was an “Extra Baby Fish Month.”...

Fish in the Bay – April 2023, Traditional Baby Fish Month

April is “Traditional Baby Fish Month.”  The tradition is fairly new in Lower South San Francisco Bay.  New for us,...

Fish in the Bay – March 2023, Freshwater Flushing & Spawning Fishes!

Atmospheric rivers and rainwater flushing continued through March.  This extended rainy season is a very welcome change after at least...

Fish in the Bay – July 2022, Palaemon Shrimp take over.

Record-breaking Palaemon Shrimp month: almost 13,000 were caught in July.  The previous record monthly catch was in November 2021 when...

Fish in the Bay – June 2022, Supplemental Report, Fishes & Other Critters.

By Luca Sartori, California State Maritime Academy Class of 2025.   https://www.csum.edu/ Editor’s note: Luca is spending his summer internship developing...

Fish in the Bay – June 2022, Record Anchovies and Gobies!

The fishes are now solidly in their summertime regime:  Anchovies, Gobies, baby Sharks, and Bat Rays.  Cool water fishes have...

Fish in the Bay – February/March 2022 Supplemental Report: Gobies, Shrimp, etc.

SF Bay fishes are very active in winter through spring.  Charismatic pelagic fishes like Longfin Smelt, Anchovies, Herring, Topsmelt, and...

Fish in the Bay – November 2021: Winter Fish Transition.

Happy New Year 2022. I am thinking about 2021 in review, but at the same time, I am still catching...

Fish in the Bay – October 2021: Longfins Returned. Non-native Silversides & Shimofuris were still out of control.

Trawl map. The results from October trawls were a mix of good and bad news on several levels.   Bay-side...

Fish in the Bay – September 2021: Operation Guadalupe, Part 3.

Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued.  For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...

Fish in the Bay – September 2021: Operation Guadalupe, Part 2.

Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued.  For this second installment, we examine some of the fishes in Alviso Slough...

Fish in the Bay – September 2021: Operation Guadalupe.

Hello folks.  From mid-August thru mid-September, the UC Davis OG Fish Lab did something very different.  With additional funding from...

Fish in the Bay – August 2021: Red Ceramium, Boogers, a Nudibranch, and other Summertime Oddities.

Trawl map. We are continuing to experience a very good Anchovy year.  The 2021 total is on track to possibly...

Fish in the Bay – July 2021: Anchovy & Goby Season – Crangon Disappeared!

Trawl map. Good News!  The summer 2021 Anchovy spawn continues.  And, we found more bryozoan reef and two new interesting...

Fish in the Bay – June 2021: Summer Fishes.

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...

Fish in the Bay – May 2021: Finishing off the La Nina spring.

Trawl map. May Trawls.  May is typically a low-fish transition month between “Baby Fish Month” of April and summertime Anchovies. ...

Fish in the Bay – April 2021: More baby fish.

Trawl map. April is “Baby Fish Month.”  We caught almost 1,900 unidentifiable baby fish.  Most of these tiny babies were...

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