Fish in the Bay – June 2022, Record Anchovies and Gobies!
The fishes are now solidly in their summertime regime: Anchovies, Gobies, baby Sharks, and Bat Rays. Cool water fishes have...
The fishes are now solidly in their summertime regime: Anchovies, Gobies, baby Sharks, and Bat Rays. Cool water fishes have...
As reported last month, the early April trawls captured “Traditional Baby Fish Month.” But with only 721 babies, it was...
Long-time readers will know that April is “Baby Fish Month” in Lower South SF Bay. Larvae of gobies and a...
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...
Happy New Year 2022. I am thinking about 2021 in review, but at the same time, I am still catching...
Trawl map. The results from October trawls were a mix of good and bad news on several levels. Bay-side...
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this second installment, we examine some of the fishes in Alviso Slough...
Trawl map. We are continuing to experience a very good Anchovy year. The 2021 total is on track to possibly...
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...
Trawl map. Good news, a new season of spawning fish arrived! Read on. Bay-side stations trawling results. Rare, odd-ball...
Trawl map. A Longfin Smelt “Alert” was posted earlier concerning egg-bearing Longfins we caught in December. This post addresses all...
Trawl map. November trawls confirmed that winter arrived in Lower South Bay: Total fish counts dropped from over 7,900 in...
This post is a cleanup of a few ongoing issues. The Shimofuri Goby problem. As discussed many times, Shimofuri Gobies...
Hello again. This is a bit of an “odds and ends” clean up post. I was unable to join the...
Trawl map. Bay-side stations trawling results. Upstream of Railroad Bridge. Our July trawling weekend was quite an experience. ...
Trawl map. Full Moon and perihelion. The Moon set at sunrise as we launched on Saturday. The combination of full...
Some additional December observations and 2019 end of year clean up. Fish & Bug Matrix: Six good years of comparable...
Happy Thanksgiving! BE THANKFUL FOR THE RAIN. Cool-season rains were long overdue when we trawled on 9-10 November. The fish...
I joined the UC Davis trawls on both days of this October’s trawling weekend. … Fish are on the move! ...
I joined the UC Davis / Hobbs Lab for a regular set of Otter Trawls on May 5th. Last week’s...
Happy April! I trawled with the Hobbs team twice this month, so far: Otter trawls conducted on 6 April, and...