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 – 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 – July 2024, El Nino Summer Doldrums.
I suppose we could call this the “slow summer” or maybe the “warm summer.” Fish counts remain low compared to...
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – August 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Worm Fight and the Evolving Marsh.
We had another good trawling weekend in August despite warm water and plummeting Dissolved Oxygen (DO). Dr. Hobbs joined...
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...
Fish in the Bay – November 2018 UC Davis Trawls – Amazing Bugs, Red Algae, Beautiful Fish
Hi Everyone. This posting is a mixed bag of loose ends from November and early December. (Monthly Data Tables are...
Fish in the Bay – 18-19 August 2018 UC Davis Trawls – Shrimp Explosion.
Hello again. This is the August Lower South Bay fish report. Very good news! We encountered a shrimp population explosion...
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