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![PIER researchers catching swordfish](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2024-01/swordfish.jpg)
Rewriting Pacific swordfish boundaries
A new, comprehensive dataset clarifies where swordfish travel — which has reworked international management plans
![A boat exits Noyo Harbor](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-11/noyo1.jpg)
Fort Bragg has the best kind of blues
Collaborative efforts to develop a new “blue economy” include a new California Sea Grant extension fellow
![Oyster bags in Tomales Bay. Courtesy of Jonathan MacKay.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-10/TomalesBay-Rack%26Bag%20Oysters-credit-Jonathan-MacKay.jpg)
The birth of the California Current Acidification Network
When oyster larvae started dying in record numbers, California Sea Grant jumped into action
![Fishing boats in Santa Barbara.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-09/image1.png)
Sharing Ocean Space to Boost Seafood Production
California Sea Grant’s New Website Offers Solutions For Shrinking America’s Seafood Deficit
![Students get hands-on aquaculture experience on a floating upwelling system (FLUPSY) in San Diego Bay. Photo Courtesy of Theresa Talley](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-08/image1.png)
Readying Southern California for a Growing Aquaculture Industry:
Designing and launching a community college aquaculture workforce development program
![People gathered around a sturgeon. Dr. Serge I. Doroshov (center). Photo Courtesy of Randy Lovell.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-07/UCDavis%20sturgeon%20%281979%29%20.jpg)
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
![Shelter Island Pier dotted with anglers. Courtesy of Theresa Talley.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-06/06_23.News_.TallyShellfish.CLH_.Photo2_.jpg)
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.
![Pamela Tom portrait.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-04/newsletter-6.jpg)
Q&A with former California Sea Grant Seafood Specialist Pamela Tom
Part of a special series celebrating California Sea Grant's 50th anniversary
![A hand shows the orange snail-like body, eyes and mouth of an endangered white abalone wiggling out of its shell.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-01/captive_bred_white_ab_john_burgess_press_democrat_1.jpg)
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.
![Local fisherman is selling live local crab at an outdoor fish market.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-12/fish_market_crabs.jpg)
Celebrate local this holiday season with a new California seafood finder
A new interactive website helps customers find local, sustainable seafood
![Seaweed from land-based culture systems. Courtesy of Monterey Bay Seaweeds.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-09/SeaweedAnnouncementImage.jpeg)
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
![Kevin Stuart, a research scientist at Hubbs netting yellowtail fingerlings. Courtesy of Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-09/YellowtailAnnouncementImage.jpg)
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
![Point Loma San Diego - North San Diego Bay. Courtesy of cultivar413.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-08/44890226472_fa6d6cf3cc_c.jpg)
“Fishing for Meaning”
The underlying social significance of harvesting and eating seafood from urban San Diego Bay
![Tumble culture of the red seaweed dulse (Devaleraea mollis) was used to buffer natural pH fluctuations, to feed juvenile abalone, as can be grown for human consumption with our industrial partner, Monterey Bay Seaweeds. Courtesy of Scott Hamilton.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-08/HEADER%2008_22.News_.AbaloneDulse.KV_.Photo1__0.jpg)
Ocean acidification can pose a challenge to abalone aquaculture. Seaweed can help
Growing dulse alongside abalone could have big benefits for aquaculture
![In December of 2019, Pacific sardines were collected for experimentation in net pens of the Everingham Bros. Bait Co. in Mission Bay, San Diego, CA.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-06/sardine_collection_800x500.jpg)
California’s sardines aren’t growing as large in warming oceans
Climate change sardines may impact fisheries and food webs.