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I’m out on the Napa Marsh today helping @janousekwild.bsky.social conduct plant surveys for the Wetland Regional Monitoring Program

Fish in the Bay – May 2025, Extra Baby Fish Month Extra Baby Fish Month!  It happened again.  Every once in a while, we see a bigger goby baby boom in May instead of April.  This month, we counted 714 baby gobies versus only 308 in April.  We experie...

🌊🐟 It’s Baby Fish Month in the Bay! May is booming with tiny silversides, gobies, and smelt in our latest #FishInTheBay update from the WRMP Fish & Habitat Team ➡️ www.ogfishlab.com/2025/05/08/f... #SFBay #EstuaryScience

Almost like being a soft-monied researcher supporter solely by federal contracts.

AFS One Day Workshop 2025

I’m looking forward to catching up with my fishy colleagues tomorrow for @calnevaafs.bsky.social workshop.
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That’s never happened to me. Ha

What does a fish biologist trunk smell like?

On the train to Oakland for the Sacramento Republic match against the Oakland Roots.

#CESA

Yeesss

So now was not a good time to leave stable state work for soft money research?

Fish in the Bay – March 2025, Part2. Bottom fishes & bugs As often happens, there was no room for discussion about bottom fishes and bugs in Part 1 of the March report.  The list of loose ends is long.   1. Flatfishes.California Halibut count = 16.  Halibut ...

“Fish in the Bay” – March 2025 (Part 2):
From halibut to baby gobies, and the buggy critters they dine on — we’re diving into what’s lurking at the bottom of the South Bay.

Catch up on the latest findings from our monthly trawls and see what spring is stirring up beneath the surface!

First survey of the #WRMP @sfestuaryinstitute for the ogfishlab.com @ucdavis @ucd_wfcb #teamfish #cawater #wetland

Fish in the Bay – Special Report: Lower South Bay Broodstock Trawls, Jan-Feb 2025 – Pictures at an Exhibition, A Fish Opera. This is a third and final report on 2025 Longfin Smelt Broodstock Trawls.  I was not present at most of the Broodstock events.  Instead, UC Davis team members sent phone camera photos of their most in...

New from Fish in the Bay: A photo-rich special report on the Jan–Feb 2025 Lower South Bay broodstock trawls. It’s part art, part science—a fish opera in pictures. Dive in: www.ogfishlab.com/2025/03/19/f...

More Clear Lake Hitch - Chi to the local Tribes, a keystone cultural species - making their way up Alley Creek in Upper Lake to spawn.

More Clear Lake Hitch - Chi to the local Tribes, a keystone cultural species - making their way up Alley Creek in Upper Lake! #Spawn #Fisheries #Fish Rain is on the way again tomorrow for the next week or so which will make their journey more difficult (higher flows, more turbid). Swim lil minnows!

The sun rising over the sea, seen from a rocky coastal bluff.

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute at @ucdavis.bsky.social is searching for a Professor and Director to join us in advancing the mission of CMSI.

View the position description and apply by the next review date, April 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044

I might have candidate for you @sharkeye.bsky.social

Fish in the Bay – Special Report: Lower South Bay Broodstock Trawls, Jan 2025 – Return to Oz. Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls continued over numerous days through January, February, and even into the first weeks of March.  I only attended three of the events: one in Suisun/Grizzly Bay and ...

Longfin Smelt spawning in the Alviso Marsh (Oz). Could this be due to the Anderson Dam decommissioning? A little flow goes a long ways in Oz. #cawater #TeamFish #SFE

www.ogfishlab.com/2025/03/17/f...

Fish in the Bay – Special Report: Suisun Bay Broodstock Trawls, December 2024. I accompanied the UC Davis crew on a “Longfin Smelt Broodstock” trawling expedition in north San Francisco Bay in December 2024.  Longfin Broodstock background:  For several years, the UC Davis “OGFL”...

In December the #ogfishlab @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social was out in Suisun Marsh looking for Longfin Smelt for the culture and conservation of the species #CAwater #TeamFish

www.ogfishlab.com/2025/03/10/f...

#maliciouscompliance

Against the Current Why are Chinook salmon moving to the urban creeks of San Jose in increasing numbers?

Against the Current: Why are Chinook salmon moving to the urban creeks of San Jose in increasing numbers? #cawater www.sierraclub.org/sierra/salmo...

Fish in the Bay – February 2025, Part 2. Bottom Fishes & Bugs in the Valley of the Heart’s Delight. This is the rest of the February report – Fishes, bugs, plus a few other items that didn’t fit into part 1. 1. Flatfishes.We tend to overlook the importance of delicious flatfishes.California Halibut ...

More fish and bugs from the Heart's Delight.

www.ogfishlab.com/2025/02/05/f...

Fish in the Bay – February 2025. Shaduary Continues. Good news? Or Bad News?  Shad population explosion has spilled over into February.  January counts broke previous records: 533 American Shad & 232 Threadfin Shad. In February, American Shad num...

Happy shaduary from the Alviso Marsh. #cawater #TeamFish #SanFranciscoBay
www.ogfishlab.com/2025/02/01/f...

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That’s awful. How’s this going to impact the monitoring?

That is a pretty fish.

Fish in the Bay – January 2025 Part 2. Other Bugs & Fishes. This second part covers other fishes and bugs that were not included in the January report.   1. Colorful Clupeiforms.  Wintertime abundance of Shad, Anchovies, and Herring affords us yet another o…

Part 2 of the January Fish in the Bay blog. More color changing fishes.

www.ogfishlab.com/2025/01/07/f...

A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God squad’? Fears grow for endangered species as the US president sets about dismantling basic laws to protect them to make way for oil and gas drilling

Is the “god squad” coming for the #deltasmelt?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#calwater.

Fish in the Bay – January 2025. Crappie Shaduary! January 2025 was a very disappointing month for Longfin Smelt.  Longfin spawning season started well enough.  November and December numbers looked promising.  But then, Longfin numbers abruptly tur…

www.ogfishlab.com/2025/01/06/f...

California halibut are thriving in San Francisco Bay. Here is an adult fish caught this morning in Lower South Bay. Also been seeing lots of juveniles this winter.