Fish in the Bay – April 2025, Traditional Baby Fish Month.
Spring is here – technically it arrived on March 20th. Returning warmth is slowly awakening the marshes … just in...
Fish in the Bay – September 2024. Upstream Invasions.
A belated September report … The overall raw fish count increased, but this was not good news. Almost 50% of...
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 – January 2024 – Longfin New Year!
Our first trawls of the new year were fairly spectacular for a mid-January: 731 Longfin Smelt. – This month alone...
Fish in the Bay – November 2023, Cool season.
Winter fishes arrive as weather cools. This creates a complicated picture in November. Many summertime fishes linger as Longfins, Herring,...
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 – November 2022 – Sturgeon Alert!
The disastrous San Francisco Bay Red Tide of August 2022 is now fading into memory. The most crushing long-lasting effect...
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 – April 2022, Part 2: Supplemental Report – The Bestiary.
Random observations from April trawls in Lower South San Francisco Bay. These were a series of Facebook posts that didn’t...
Fish in the Bay – April 2022, Part 1: Traditional Baby Fish Month?
Long-time readers will know that April is “Baby Fish Month” in Lower South SF Bay. Larvae of gobies and a...
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 – January 2022: Anchovies and Longfins, yes! But, no Crangon brooding.
Good News! Our streak of phenomenal finfish production continues. This time last year, we were marveling over the uncharacteristic boost...
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 – 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 – October 2020: Anchovy Spawning & Silverside Tsunami Increase.
Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Two major trends continued in October: ...
Fish in the Bay – September 2020: Silverside Tsunami, spawning Anchovies & some apex predators.
Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Anchovies continue to spawn in September! ...
Fish in the Bay – July 2020: Lots of Crangon & Topsmelt, plus a Red Ceramium Bloom.
Trawl map. Bay-side stations trawling results. Upstream of Railroad Bridge. Our July trawling weekend was quite an experience. ...
Fish in the Bay – October 2019, UC Davis Trawls (Part2) – Big Fish in a Little Pond; plus a Shrimp update.
This is part 2 from our latest trawling weekend, 5 & 6 October. See previous post for datasheets. Bay Study. ...
Fish in the Bay – May 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Cinco de Mayo
I joined the UC Davis / Hobbs Lab for a regular set of Otter Trawls on May 5th. Last week’s...
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