This project is based on an 18-year database of inshore fishes of a west side waterfront study area centered at Pier 26. The study area supports numerous and diverse species of fishes, including sea horses, striped bass, flatfishes, black sea bass, tomcod, and rock gunnels, to name a few of the 49 species documented here to date. Traps are deployed off the docks and pilings of the pier. The study includes a survey of the local fishes; documentation of parameters affecting fish distribution, such as temperature, salinity, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, nitrite, nitrate, plankton, and fish eggs and larvae; life cycle studies; and behavioral observations of feeding, inter- and intra-species relationships, and spawning.