Fish in the Bay – May 2025, WRMP San Pablo Bay Trawls, Part 2 – Petaluma River.
This is part 2 of a 4-part San Pablo Bay series. The UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry & Fish Ecology Lab...
This is part 2 of a 4-part San Pablo Bay series. The UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry & Fish Ecology Lab...
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 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...
Happy New Year! This post mainly focuses on the latest return migration of spawning Longfin Smelt – a now an...
October was a hot weekend. Air temperature was beastly. Water temperatures in October were close to 2 degrees C warmer...
This is part two of the April report. Part one covered “Baby Fish Month” which mainly pertains to the April...
Once again, it is that time of year: Baby Fish Month! Hundreds to thousands of tiny baby “unidentified” gobies traditionally...
Our first trawls of the new year were fairly spectacular for a mid-January: 731 Longfin Smelt. – This month alone...
We caught 36 Bat Rays in November. It was unexpected to see so many this late in the year. With...
Winter fishes arrive as weather cools. This creates a complicated picture in November. Many summertime fishes linger as Longfins, Herring,...
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.”...
April is “Traditional Baby Fish Month.” The tradition is fairly new in Lower South San Francisco Bay. New for us,...
Atmospheric rivers and rainwater flushing continued through March. This extended rainy season is a very welcome change after at least...
Cold rain continued to fall as Atmospheric Rivers blew in from the ocean throughout January and February, and even through...
We trawled in cold and intermittent rain on December 10th and 11th. This seasonal weather change is a very good...
These are additional notes from the May trawls. As always, there are so many critters to discuss and so little...
As reported last month, the early April trawls captured “Traditional Baby Fish Month.” But with only 721 babies, it was...
March was an unusual month that we still have not completely figured out. We are in the start of a...
SF Bay fishes are very active in winter through spring. Charismatic pelagic fishes like Longfin Smelt, Anchovies, Herring, Topsmelt, and...
Good News! Our streak of phenomenal finfish production continues. This time last year, we were marveling over the uncharacteristic boost...
2021 was a very good year in Lower South SF Bay (LSB) – for most fishes. Many records were broken,...
Happy New Year 2022. I am thinking about 2021 in review, but at the same time, I am still catching...
