"View from the Water" Blog

On Wednesday, August 9, the CDFW Trammel Net Survey was back in San Pablo Bay.

They caught 2 more Green Sturgeon. One received an acoustic tag for tracking. They also caught 4 White Sturgeon and 59 Bat Rays.

CDFW staff Kevin Juranek holding a sturgeon (first image); a second sturgeon gets ready to receive an acoustic tag (second image). CDFW photos. Click on images to enlarge.

On August 11, they caught 2 more Green Sturgeon and a Thornback Ray. So far this season, they've caught 7 Green Sturgeon, three of which received acoustic tags.

CDFW staff Bradyn O'Connor holding a Thornback ray. CDFW photos. Click on image to enlarge.

Are you curious to know how many Green and White Sturgeon have been caught so far this season? Check out a new Sturgeon Tagging app that allows you to plot simple catch information.

Happy Monday IEP Community! 

The CDFW Enhanced Sturgeon Life Cycle Monitoring Program is back out in San Pablo Bay today (08/08/2022) conducting their trammel net survey.

This morning they caught several sportfish in the Bay - a nice Bat Ray, Broadnose Sevengill Shark, and a Starry Flounder. These are all native sport fishes to the San Francisco Estuary.

  
CDFW staff Dylan Stompe holding Bat Ray (first image), a Broadnose Sevengill Shark (second image), and Starry Flounder (third image). CDFW photos.

Later in the day, the team was on a roll and captured two Green Sturgeon bringing their total to three for the season so far. One of the fish was outfitted with an acoustic tag that will allow the program to follow it for the next year or two.

  
CDFW environmental scientist and sturgeon expert, Marc Beccio, placing an acoustic tag in one sturgeon (first image) and showing off the second green sturgeon (second image) from the day's catch. CDFW photos.