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Sharing Ocean Space to Boost Seafood Production
California Sea Grant’s New Website Offers Solutions For Shrinking America’s Seafood Deficit

Readying Southern California for a Growing Aquaculture Industry:
Designing and launching a community college aquaculture workforce development program

Roe Crops: How Sacramento Became the Caviar Capital of the U.S.
Bolstered by steady funding assistance from California Sea Grant, California’s white sturgeon were successfully brought into domestication

Who’s At Risk? A New California Sea Grant Study Assesses Contaminant Levels in Spiny Lobster & Crab Harvested from San Diego Bay
Where shellfish is caught and which parts are eaten can impact risks.

Q&A with former California Sea Grant Seafood Specialist Pamela Tom
Part of a special series celebrating California Sea Grant's 50th anniversary

How 50 years of California Sea Grant research kept abalone on the menu
Despite challenges brought by invasive pests and disease, California’s abalone are still hanging on.

Celebrate local this holiday season with a new California seafood finder
A new interactive website helps customers find local, sustainable seafood

California Sea Grant Receives Nearly $700,000 To Develop New Hatchery Technologies For Seaweed Farming
Funding will address critical knowledge gaps in propagating seaweed and expanding U.S. seaweed markets

California Sea Grant Awarded Nearly $630,000 In Yellowtail Research Funding
Improving production of this commercially ready marine fish for aquaculture will help reduce America’s reliance on imported seafood

“Fishing for Meaning”
The underlying social significance of harvesting and eating seafood from urban San Diego Bay

Ocean acidification can pose a challenge to abalone aquaculture. Seaweed can help
Growing dulse alongside abalone could have big benefits for aquaculture

California’s sardines aren’t growing as large in warming oceans
Climate change sardines may impact fisheries and food webs.