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 – September 2023, Summer’s End.
A belated September fish report: I missed September trawls, but Sami, Niko, and Janai sent me some photos. I got...
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 – 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 – Special Report: Green Water, 6-7 Aug 2022.
This is a Fish in the Bay special report to document observations of water color in Lower South San Francisco...
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 – 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 – 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 – March 2021: La Nina Baby Fish Bomb.
Trawl map. We caught a lot of baby fish in March; more shrimp than normal as well. The Pacific Ocean...
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 – January 2020: The Longfin Chronicles, Part 3.
Longfin trawl results from January 2nd & 3rd. Operation “Save Our Smelt” 2020/21, week three. By this point, over 100...
Fish in the Bay – May & June 2020, part 2: Fishes of June, plus a bonus worm.
This is part two of a combined May – June report. Part one examined the massive Crangon shrimp recruitment explosion...
Fish in the Bay – June 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Freshness Continues
Hello folks. I joined Jim Hobbs and the UC Davis trawling surveys on Saturday, June 1st. It was a crazy...
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