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![Fish in Marine Protected Area](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2024-06/mlma_header.jpg)
Tying together California’s marine laws
Research examines how marine protected areas impact management plans
![Spiny lobster](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2024-04/spinylobsterheader.jpg)
![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
How A California Sea Grant Program Helped Shed Light on Salmon Recovery
California Sea Grant completes nearly two decades of monitoring and research.
![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
![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
![Hand holding a coho salmon.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-07/05_23.News_.Fog%26Fish.LB_.Photo2_.jpg)
![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.
![Commercial fisherman Pete Halmay in front of his boat.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-05/03_23.news_.50th.halmay.ue_.photo1_.jpeg)
‘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.
![CUFES being installed](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-05/04_23.cufes_.50th.news_.bu_.photo_.1.jpg)
The unassuming device that maps California’s fish eggs
California Sea Grant funding helped an innovative tool spread across the world
![Fish in water.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-05/Genetic%20rescue%20press%20release%20photo%201.jpg)
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.
![Cloudy blue water rushes through rocks in the Trinity River as the evening sunlight shines on a section of evergreen trees lining the rocky river bed.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2023-02/12_22.news_.grfleahmellinger.rh_.photo_.1.jpg)
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
![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
![NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service-Sea Grant Fellow Sabrina Beyer stands on a boat holding a rockfish](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-12/imageedit_2_2382831133.jpg)
How Ocean Conditions Change Rockfish Reproduction
A Q&A with recent NMFS-Sea Grant Fellow Sabrina Beyer
![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
![The PIER team bolts an Argos transmitter to the dorsal fin of a swordfish caught with deep-set gear. The transmitters allow the researcher to track movements of swordfish throughout their annual migration cycles. Photo credit: PIER](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2022-07/07_22.Newsletter.Swordfish.EM_.Photo_.1_resize.jpg)
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.
![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.