Fish in the Bay – Boy’s Town / Girl’s Town – June 2026.
We returned to Lower South Bay (LSB) for June trawls. This was a relatively relaxed month with only two days...
We returned to Lower South Bay (LSB) for June trawls. This was a relatively relaxed month with only two days...
This is a small summary of our May trawling results in San Francisco Bay: 4 sites in San Pablo Bay...
This is a “North Bay Addendum” to the April 2026 report. With support from the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP),...
Once again, it is April. Time for another “Traditional Baby Fish Month.” – Yes, we invented this April tradition and...
March Madness! We are back in Lower South Bay (LSB). Actually, we continue to return to LSB every month, but...
This report is a brief “2025 Year-in-Review” for the Napa-Sonoma Marsh trawls. Much of this is adapted from a webinar...
Merry Fishmas! This is a small update from Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls that the UC Davis crew has been conducting...
After several visits to San Pablo Bay in the north, we returned to Lower South Bay marshes in early June. ...
Part 4 of the San Pablo Bay Trawls. This is the fourth and final installment of our first round of...
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...
New WRMP San Pablo Bay trawls. The UC Davis OGFL crew performed fish assessments of restored marsh areas around San...
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...
Spring is here – technically it arrived on March 20th. Returning warmth is slowly awakening the marshes … just in...
The UC Davis OGFL lab was contracted by the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) to perform fish monitoring surveys at...
The Shaduary Shad population explosion ended by early March. Only a small remnant of stragglers remained in the area. Unfortunately,...
This is a third and final report on 2025 Longfin Smelt Broodstock Trawls. I was not present at most of...
Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls continued over numerous days through January, February, and even into the first weeks of March. I...
I accompanied the UC Davis crew on a “Longfin Smelt Broodstock” trawling expedition in north San Francisco Bay in December...
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...
Happy New Year! This post mainly focuses on the latest return migration of spawning Longfin Smelt – a now an...
Merry Fishmas everyone! I fell horribly behind in my fish reporting, so I am combining Fishmas with the November blog. ...
Relatively few fish overall. May totals were generally not the lowest ever, but these numbers were reminiscent of low fish...
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...
This is a pelagic fish holiday special. Longfin Smelt and Pacific Herring have arrived in preparation for mid-winter spawning. Young...