All in a Roe
This winter, as they have for decades, fishermen in the Bay’s last commercial fishery will launch their boats in search of spawning herring. These small fish come into the Bay...
Tag: San Francisco Bay-Central
Oil Spill CSI
The 2007 oil spill in San Francisco Bay may be bad news for herring.
Naturalist’s Notebook: Summer Brings Terns and Skimmers
Summer brings a diversity of terns and skimmers to San Francisco Bay.
Bay Trail Birding, Surf Scoter Decline
Winter is high time for birding on the Bay, and now the San Francisco Bay Trail has become the area’s longest birding trail. The trail currently covers 260 miles of...
What is the largest species of fish you could find in San Francisco Bay?
Q: What is the largest species of fish you could find in San Francisco Bay? A: Let’s limit ourselves to the true bony fish, which leaves out any great white...
On The Move
All of the familiar landforms we see here in the Bay Area—ridges, cliffs, lakes, and even San Francisco Bay itself—are products of the same titanic encounters between tectonic plates that...
Book Review: San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary
by John Hart (text) and David Sanger (photography), University of California Press, 2003, 212 pages, $34.95 (www.ucpress.edu). Early European explorers sailed right past the mouth of the San Francisco Bay;...
Toward A Healthy Bay
In the 40 years since the movement to save San Francisco Bay began, we have moved from desperately fending off more bay fill projects to proactively restoring thousands of acres...
Baylands Ecosystem and Community Profiles
A new resource is available for anyone interested in learning more about the fish and wildlife that live in and around San Francisco Bay. Baylands Ecosystem Species and Community Profiles...
Peering into Muddy Waters
One measure of the ecological richness of the Bay is its role as a major nursery for five resident species of sharks.
