Fish in the Bay – Marine Heatwave Watch – May 2026.
This is a small summary of our May trawling results in San Francisco Bay: 4 sites in San Pablo Bay...
This is a small summary of our May trawling results in San Francisco Bay: 4 sites in San Pablo Bay...
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...
After several visits to San Pablo Bay in the north, we returned to Lower South Bay marshes in early June. ...
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...
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...
As often happens, there was no room for discussion about bottom fishes and bugs in Part 1 of the March...
This is the rest of the February report – Fishes, bugs, plus a few other items that didn’t fit into...
This second part covers additional fishes and bugs that were not included in the January report. 1. Colorful Clupeiforms. Wintertime...
October was a hot weekend. Air temperature was beastly. Water temperatures in October were close to 2 degrees C warmer...
September report continued … 1. Gobies & Sculpin. Something odd is happening in Goby World. All numbers were down compared...
I suppose we could call this the “slow summer” or maybe the “warm summer.” Fish counts remain low compared to...
This is part 2 of the June report. – These are additional observations that couldn’t be squeezed into the initial...
Relatively few fish overall. May totals were generally not the lowest ever, but these numbers were reminiscent of low fish...
This is part two of the April report. Part one covered “Baby Fish Month” which mainly pertains to the April...
As of March, we were still experiencing a welcome extended rainy spring. In theory, the additional rainwater flushing should be...
Winter fishes arrive as weather cools. This creates a complicated picture in November. Many summertime fishes linger as Longfins, Herring,...
Several October spoilers were given in the previous post. Much more remains to be reported. We will only cover a...
A belated September fish report: I missed September trawls, but Sami, Niko, and Janai sent me some photos. I got...
The big story for August is that another 464 baby Starries were caught. When added to all the Starries caught...
In August, the fish populations finally transitioned to a more typical summertime assemblage of Anchovies and Gobies. However, a...
Record Starry Year! As reported earlier, the year-to-date Starry count had already exceeded the previous record year as of June,...
More baby fishes showed up in June! This included 60 baby Longfin Smelt and 178 baby Starry Flounder which is...
More baby fish showed up in May. For want of a better term, this was an “Extra Baby Fish Month.”...
Atmospheric rivers and rainwater flushing continued through March. This extended rainy season is a very welcome change after at least...
Part 2 of the January report covers all the other interesting fishes and bugs. Seven atmospheric river storms that swept...