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Scrutinizing the spiny lobster

Research reveals a more complex portrait of a key commercial species

Five projects awarded over $5.8 million in funding to research how to restore California's vital kelp forests

Rewriting Pacific swordfish boundaries

A new, comprehensive dataset clarifies where swordfish travel — which has reworked international management plans

How A California Sea Grant Program Helped Shed Light on Salmon Recovery

California Sea Grant completes nearly two decades of monitoring and research.

Fort Bragg has the best kind of blues

Collaborative efforts to develop a new “blue economy” include a new California Sea Grant extension fellow

Sharing the Sea

California Sea Grant's Role in Forty Years of Navigating Ocean Space Use

Sharing Ocean Space to Boost Seafood Production

California Sea Grant’s New Website Offers Solutions For Shrinking America’s Seafood Deficit

California Graduate Student Awarded National Marine Fisheries Fellowship

Fog & Fish

How the marine fog layer impacts fish in streams

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.

‘Everybody thinks the ocean is limitless’

Fisherman Pete Halmay believes that both science and experience play a role in sustaining local fisheries. As told to Ute Eberle.

The unassuming device that maps California’s fish eggs

California Sea Grant funding helped an innovative tool spread across the world

Press Release: Can genetic rescue be used as a tool to save endangered species?

Researchers from UC Berkeley, NOAA and California Sea Grant say the technique is being used to bolster California’s endangered coho salmon.

Knauss Fellow follows her ‘arc’ into new NOAA role

Pathogen-Resistant Salmon Stock May Signal Hope For The Upper Klamath River

Graduate Research Fellow Leah Mellinger finds promising results in the effort to restock the Upper Klamath River

Under Climate Change, Pacific Herring Require Ecosystem-Based Management Approach

Celebrate local this holiday season with a new California seafood finder

A new interactive website helps customers find local, sustainable seafood

How Ocean Conditions Change Rockfish Reproduction

A Q&A with recent NMFS-Sea Grant Fellow Sabrina Beyer

“Fishing for Meaning”

The underlying social significance of harvesting and eating seafood from urban San Diego Bay

Scientists restore native oysters by bringing back an enemy of their predator

California Graduate Student Awarded National Marine Fisheries Fellowship

Scientists study Pacific swordfish ecology for sustainable management

The swordfish industry is big business. By studying the genetics and movements of swordfish, scientists have begun to address important management questions for this elusive resource.

California’s sardines aren’t growing as large in warming oceans

Climate change sardines may impact fisheries and food webs.

MPA Update: Fishing Communities- an Integral Part of California’s Coastal Management Approach