Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture

New Guidance for Kelp Management Efforts in California
California Sea Grant Extension Fellow Dr. Gina Contolini is lead author on the newly released Giant Kelp and Bull Kelp Enhanced Status Report. 

MPA Update: Fishing Communities- an Integral Part of California’s Coastal Management Approach
“When COVID-19 hit and I went on the ocean, that's when I felt normal.

California Sea Grant awarded "Food from the Sea" Career Program Development Projects funding
NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program and Office of Sustainable Fisheries awarded approximately $900,000 of FY21 federal funds to support projects that will initiate “Food from the Sea'' career

California, Oregon and Washington Sea Grants Receive NOAA Funding to Address the Pandemic’s Impacts on the Seafood Industry
NOAA Sea Grant awarded California, Oregon, and Washington Sea Grants $599,988 for a project to help address

California Sea Grant celebrates two national fisheries fellowship winners
California PhD students Nima Farchadi and Thomas Anderson have each been awarded a

Expedition rocky reef: Using a remotely operated vehicle to explore the diversity of California’s marine protected areas
After a month at sea, California Sea Grant and Ocean Protection Council funded researchers pulled into port in San Diego’s Mission Bay.

Research funding to support new faculty in California
California Sea Grant announces seven research projects exploring coastal resilience, aquaculture, and fisheries.

Anticipating the effects of future climates and river flow regimes on Pacific Herring recruitment in the San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay’s once-thriving herring fishery has recently seen declines and increased variability, which has even led to closures.  Forage fishes like herring, anchovy, and shad are not only i

Season timing, benefits of diversified fishing portfolios, and the ability of fishers to withstand sudden revenue declines
Over the past several decades, managers have limited access to many of California’s commercial fisheries.

Study of the biology of night smelt (Spirinchus starksi) in Humboldt and Del Norte counties
Night smelt, Spirinchus starksi, is an ecologically, economically and culturally important forage fish that occurs from Central California to Southeast Alaska.