Fish in the Bay – May/June 2025, WRMP San Pablo Bay Trawls, Part 4 – Wildcat & San Pablo Marshes.
Part 4 of the San Pablo Bay Trawls. This is the fourth and final installment of our first round of...
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...
As often happens, there was no room for discussion about bottom fishes and bugs in Part 1 of the March...
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...
I suppose we could call this the “slow summer” or maybe the “warm summer.” Fish counts remain low compared to...
El Nino officially ended in May, but effects on fishes linger. Overall fish totals remain low – with one...
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...
February trawls were conducted on 10 and 11 February just after two atmospheric rivers dumped a good amount of rain. ...
Part 2 of the January 2024 report: 1. Green water & some reddish fish in Artesian Slough. Clear green water...
Our first trawls of the new year were fairly spectacular for a mid-January: 731 Longfin Smelt. – This month alone...
Sami and Janai loading the net on Saturday morning. For this second part of the November report, Janai gave us...
Winter fishes arrive as weather cools. This creates a complicated picture in November. Many summertime fishes linger as Longfins, Herring,...
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...
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,...
Part 2 of the January report covers all the other interesting fishes and bugs. Seven atmospheric river storms that swept...
The fishes are now solidly in their summertime regime: Anchovies, Gobies, baby Sharks, and Bat Rays. Cool water fishes have...
March was an unusual month that we still have not completely figured out. We are in the start of a...
February was another great month if you like small pelagic bait fishes. … And, who doesn’t? The February Longfin Smelt...