Fish sampling
Fishing using sein net at mid-tide with students, caught approx. 70 1" to 3" silversides. I.D.ed using Peterson's Atlantic Coast Fishes.
I like the color of the silverside.
We collected the fish species, topsmelt silverside, in the former salt pond. The biologists from UC. Davis threw out nets and brought them onto the shore.
This fish was sneering!
found during seining with UCDavis fish survey group, around 3pm, G6
Atherinops affinis, the topsmelt silverside or simply topsmelt, is a species of neotropical silverside native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. This fish is found along the west coast of North America from southern British Columbia to Baja California. It is marine and it often schools in relatively shallow water such as estuaries, bays, rocky intertidal zones and kelp forests, where it feeds on zooplankton. This is a common fish of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San...
