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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...

Fish in the Bay – November 2020: Cold Snap – Winter Arrives.

Trawl map. November trawls confirmed that winter arrived in Lower South Bay:  Total fish counts dropped from over 7,900 in...

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 – January 2020: Part 2, More Winter Bugs & Fishes.

Full Moon and perihelion.   As mentioned in Part 1, we were experiencing the second or third highest-high tide of the...

Fish in the Bay – January 2020: Part 1, Pregnant Sculpin, Saltwater Oddballs, and a Shad Experiment.

Trawl map. Full Moon and perihelion.   The Moon set at sunrise as we launched on Saturday.  The combination of full...

Fish in the Bay – December 2019: Part 1, Rains bring Mysids and other critters.

December trawls: Jon Kuntz was on lines and net duty.  Happy New Year!  I am catching up on December reporting. ...

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 – September 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Exopalaemon Blow-Out plus more Anchovy Color Investigation.

I did not join the September trawls, so the photo record is a little sparse.  It was an interesting month...

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