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Fish in the Bay – July Aug 2025, Bair Island = Mystery Island.

Bair Island, a restored marshland off the shores of Redwood City and San Carlos, is the latest new area we...

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...

Fish in the Bay – August 2024. Bat Ray Care & Feeding – in the Nursery.

Once again, fish totals were low in August.  We presume this is the lingering El Nino effect.  Hopefully, a flip...

Fish in the Bay – June 2024, Part 2. Gobies, Pipefish, & Bugs.

This is part 2 of the June report.  – These are additional observations that couldn’t be squeezed into the initial...

Fish in the Bay – July 2023, Special Report: Marsh Plants in the restored Garden of Eden.

Fish in the Bay – July 2023, Special Report: Marsh Plants in the restored Garden of Eden.

Summer is when the marsh turns greenest.  I have not blogged enough about plants.   1. Oasis & Bass Sanctuary at...

Fish in the Bay – June 2023, Is Summer here yet?

More baby fishes showed up in June!  This included 60 baby Longfin Smelt and 178 baby Starry Flounder which is...

Fish in the Bay – Special Report: Understanding H. akashiwo & the Red Tide. What Does This Strange Organism Want?

What caused H. akashiwo to bloom into a red tide frenzy in San Francisco Bay last summer?  Another bloom like...

Fish in the Bay – September 2022, part 2 – Seaweed & Seagrass Beds inhibit Red Tides!

This is a follow-up post regarding Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and the recent H. akashiwo red tide in San Francisco...

Fish in the Bay – September 2020, Part 2: Shimofuri Special Report and Benthic Bugs.

Fish in the Bay – September 2020, Part 2: Shimofuri Special Report and Benthic Bugs.

This post is a cleanup of a few ongoing issues.  The Shimofuri Goby problem. As discussed many times, Shimofuri Gobies...

Fish in the Bay – December 2019: Part 2, Gobies and more wet-season erosion.

Some additional December observations and 2019 end of year clean up. Fish & Bug Matrix: Six good years of comparable...

Fish in the Bay – August 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Worm Fight and the Evolving Marsh.

We had another good trawling weekend in August despite warm water and plummeting Dissolved Oxygen (DO).    Dr. Hobbs joined...

Fish in the Bay – July 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Brown-back Anchovies and Bat Rays

It was another mixed-up weekend in July owing to extreme summer tides and some rough afternoon weather that preempted trawling...