Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture

Toward Resilience and Sustainable Seafood Supply: Assessing Direct Marketing Approaches for the West Coast Fishing Communities
The “locavore” movement is helping America’s farmers. Could it also help our fishermen?

Maximizing the Values of Offshore Aquaculture Development in the Context of Multiple Ocean Uses
The state of California is in the process of establishing a management framework for permitting and regulating open-ocean aquaculture.

Development of Sustainable Tuna Aquaculture in the United States Using Yellowfin Tuna as a Model
Rearing fish during their larval stage is often the most difficult part of developing a new species for culture; however, for yellowfin tuna, this common difficulty is further complicated by the ab

Juvenile Life History and Adult Return as a Function of Juvenile Rearing Location for Coho Salmon in the Shasta River, CA
California’s remnant coho salmon populations are listed on the state and federal Endangered Species Acts and have been the focus of considerable investment in the form of population monitoring and

Developing a Climate Change-Tolerant Urchin Fishery
Echinoderms are important benthic fauna ecologically, and California’s Strongylocentrotus franciscanus (red urchin) and S.

Determining the Genetic and Molecular Bases of Oyster Resistance to an Oyster-killing virus, Ostreid herpesvirus 1
Pacific oysters worldwide have suffered mass mortalities from the oyster herpes virus (Ostreid herpes virus 1).

Integrating Collaborative Data Collection with Management: A Lobster Fishery Test Case
Could commercial fishermen help gather and interpret data for long-term, cost-effective fisheries management?

Collaborative fisheries research to build socioeconomic essential fishery information: a test case
A California Sea Grant Coastal Specialist is leading a socioeconomic study of the commercial fishery for California halibut in partnership with the commercial fishing community, state fisheries man

Crowd Sourcing Essential Fishery Information for California halibut
The goal of this project is to collect Essential Fishery Information from sport-caught California halibut (Paralichthys californicus).

Collaborative Research on Night Smelt
The specific objectives of this research project are to form a collaboration between commercial fishermen, resource managers, and marine fisheries ecologists, to: 1) document locations of spawning