Fish in the Bay. – December 2025, Merry Fishmas 2025!
Merry Fishmas! This is a small update from Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls that the UC Davis crew has been conducting...
Merry Fishmas! This is a small update from Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls that the UC Davis crew has been conducting...
Bair Island, a restored marshland off the shores of Redwood City and San Carlos, is the latest new area we...
After several visits to San Pablo Bay in the north, we returned to Lower South Bay marshes in early June. ...
Extra Baby Fish Month! It happened again. Every once in a while, we see a bigger goby baby boom in...
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...
As often happens, there was no room for discussion about bottom fishes and bugs in Part 1 of the March...
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...
September report continued … 1. Gobies & Sculpin. Something odd is happening in Goby World. All numbers were down compared...
I suppose we could call this the “slow summer” or maybe the “warm summer.” Fish counts remain low compared to...
This is part 2 of the June report. – These are additional observations that couldn’t be squeezed into the initial...
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...
Once again, it is that time of year: Baby Fish Month! Hundreds to thousands of tiny baby “unidentified” gobies traditionally...
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...
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...
Folks, the Red Tide continues to sweep across portions of North and Central San Francisco Bay. Areas affected by dark...
This is a Fish in the Bay special report to document observations of water color in Lower South San Francisco...
Record-breaking Palaemon Shrimp month: almost 13,000 were caught in July. The previous record monthly catch was in November 2021 when...
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...
SF Bay fishes are very active in winter through spring. Charismatic pelagic fishes like Longfin Smelt, Anchovies, Herring, Topsmelt, and...