Fish in the Bay – May 2025, WRMP San Pablo Bay Trawls, Part 3 – Gallinas Creek to Hamilton Wetlands.
This is part 3 of the San Pablo Bay series. We continue our journey around San Pablo Bay. This time...
This is part 3 of the San Pablo Bay series. We continue our journey around San Pablo Bay. This time...
This is part 2 of a 4-part San Pablo Bay series. The UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry & Fish Ecology Lab...
Extra Baby Fish Month! It happened again. Every once in a while, we see a bigger goby baby boom in...
The UC Davis OGFL crew performed their second fish assessment of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in early May. They...
Part 2 of the April report. 1. Corbula Clams. The main stem of Coyote Creek between UCoy2 and Coy1...
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...
Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls continued over numerous days through January, February, and even into the first weeks of March. I...
This is the rest of the February report – Fishes, bugs, plus a few other items that didn’t fit into...
Good news? Or Bad News? Shad population explosion has spilled over into February. January counts broke previous records: 533 American...
January 2025 was a very disappointing month for Longfin Smelt. Longfin spawning season started well enough. November and December numbers...
Merry Fishmas everyone! I fell horribly behind in my fish reporting, so I am combining Fishmas with the November blog. ...
October was a hot weekend. Air temperature was beastly. Water temperatures in October were close to 2 degrees C warmer...
September report continued … 1. Gobies & Sculpin. Something odd is happening in Goby World. All numbers were down compared...
I suppose we could call this the “slow summer” or maybe the “warm summer.” Fish counts remain low compared to...
El Nino officially ended in May, but effects on fishes linger. Overall fish totals remain low – with one...
Relatively few fish overall. May totals were generally not the lowest ever, but these numbers were reminiscent of low fish...
This is part two of the April report. Part one covered “Baby Fish Month” which mainly pertains to the April...
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...
Part 2 of the January 2024 report: 1. Green water & some reddish fish in Artesian Slough. Clear green water...
Winter fishes arrive as weather cools. This creates a complicated picture in November. Many summertime fishes linger as Longfins, Herring,...
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...
Cold rain continued to fall as Atmospheric Rivers blew in from the ocean throughout January and February, and even through...
We trawled in cold and intermittent rain on December 10th and 11th. This seasonal weather change is a very good...
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...
The fishes are now solidly in their summertime regime: Anchovies, Gobies, baby Sharks, and Bat Rays. Cool water fishes have...
The Anchovy population just exploded in Lower South SF Bay. The monthly totals in April and May were 29 and...
