Dr. Christina Swanson takes a look at the status of the San Francisco Estuary’s fish community The San Francisco estuary is important habitat for many fish species and environmental conditions, such as the amounts and timing of freshwater inflows, water temperatures, the extent of rich tidal marsh habitats, and pollution can affect the numbers and types of fish that the Bay can support. Thus, the measures of fish abundance, diversity, species composition, and distribution reported by SFEI’s 2019 State of … Continue reading STATE OF ESTUARY: Vital signs of the San Francisco Estuary fish community