starry flounder

Happy New Year 2022. I am thinking about 2021 in review, but at the same time, I am still catching...

Fish in the Bay – October 2021: Longfins Returned. Non-native Silversides & Shimofuris were still out of control.

October 16, 2021 Jim Ervin

Trawl map. The results from October trawls were a mix of good and bad news on several levels. Bay-side...

Fish in the Bay – September 2021: Operation Guadalupe, Part 3.

September 21, 2021 Jim Ervin

Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...

Fish in the Bay – September 2021: Operation Guadalupe.

September 15, 2021 Jim Ervin

Hello folks. From mid-August thru mid-September, the UC Davis OG Fish Lab did something very different. With additional funding from...

Fish in the Bay – July 2021: Anchovy & Goby Season – Crangon Disappeared!

July 4, 2021 Jim Ervin

Trawl map. Good News! The summer 2021 Anchovy spawn continues. And, we found more bryozoan reef and two new interesting...

Fish in the Bay – June 2021: Summer Fishes.

June 6, 2021 Jim Ervin

Trawl map. June Trawls. The summertime Anchovy spawn commenced in June: see previous Anchovy Alert blog post – http://www.ogfishlab.com/2021/06/05/fish-in-the-bay-june-2021-anchovy-alert-spawning-anchovies-have-returned-to-lower-south-san-francisco-bay/. This...

Fish in the Bay – May 2021: Finishing off the La Nina spring.

May 9, 2021 Jim Ervin

Trawl map. May Trawls. May is typically a low-fish transition month between “Baby Fish Month” of April and summertime Anchovies. ...

Fish in the Bay – April 2021: More baby fish.

April 11, 2021 Jim Ervin

Trawl map. April is “Baby Fish Month.” We caught almost 1,900 unidentifiable baby fish. Most of these tiny babies were...

Fish in the Bay – November 2020: Cold Snap – Winter Arrives.

November 15, 2020 Jim Ervin

Trawl map. November trawls confirmed that winter arrived in Lower South Bay: Total fish counts dropped from over 7,900 in...

Fish in the Bay – May & June 2020, part 2: Fishes of June, plus a bonus worm.

June 20, 2020 Jim Ervin

This is part two of a combined May – June report. Part one examined the massive Crangon shrimp recruitment explosion...

Fish in the Bay – January 2020: Part 2, More Winter Bugs & Fishes.

January 12, 2020 Jim Ervin

Full Moon and perihelion. As mentioned in Part 1, we were experiencing the second or third highest-high tide of the...

Fish in the Bay – January 2020: Part 1, Pregnant Sculpin, Saltwater Oddballs, and a Shad Experiment.

January 11, 2020 Jim Ervin

Trawl map. Full Moon and perihelion. The Moon set at sunrise as we launched on Saturday. The combination of full...

Fish in the Bay – December 2019: Part 1, Rains bring Mysids and other critters.

December 8, 2019 Jim Ervin

December trawls: Jon Kuntz was on lines and net duty. Happy New Year! I am catching up on December reporting. ...

Fish in the Bay – October 2019, UC Davis Trawls (Part2) – Big Fish in a Little Pond; plus a Shrimp update.

October 6, 2019 Jim Ervin

This is part 2 from our latest trawling weekend, 5 & 6 October. See previous post for datasheets. Bay Study. ...

Fish in the Bay – September 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Exopalaemon Blow-Out plus more Anchovy Color Investigation.

September 8, 2019 Jim Ervin

I did not join the September trawls, so the photo record is a little sparse. It was an interesting month...

Fish in the Bay – January 2019, UC Davis Trawls – American Shad, Crangon, and Anchovies are up!

January 12, 2019 Jim Ervin

Off

Wet winter brings more fish! Hello everyone. This is a slightly abbreviated post focusing on the ongoing booming populations of...

Fish in the Bay – 6 August 2017 UC Davis trawl – A good year for Starry Flounder

August 6, 2017 Jim Ervin

A short August update. I rode with the UC Davis crew on 6 August on the Artesian/Upper Coyote Creek side....