Our federal fisheries managers have declared cowcod stocks to be rebuilt, after careful analysis of new and more accurate fish stock assessment data. This is awesome news and I want every red-blooded ...

After a 20-year rockfish recovery effort, marine scientists and fishermen reached an unlikely compromise to protect fragile areas of the seafloor off Southern California’s coast while reopening others ...

Dock Totals 2/19– 3/4: 684 anglers aboard 34 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past two weeks caught 1 barracuda, 22 calico bass (88 released), 21 halfmoon, 1 halibut ...

In the Southern Management Zone (Point Conception to the Mexican border), our maximum allowable fishing depth has been temporarily reduced from 60 fathoms (360 feet) to 50 fathoms (300 feet), from Nov ...

The CCAs prohibit fishing deeper than 110 feet, since many adult rockfish species live at such depths. Therefore, the 4,300-square-mile areas protect numerous species of rockfish in addition to cowcod ...

Local anglers and fishing related businesses are lamenting the lack of a salmon season this year. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife in accordance with the Pacific Fisheries Management ...

For the second consecutive year, a low number of salmon is jeopardizing the California salmon season. Estimates are for 33,622 salmon this year, making it the second lowest number since the 2008-2009 ...

There’s finally some good news coming out of the West Coast Fisheries. Two important West Coast groundfish stocks that were formerly overfished have now been rebuilt according to a news release issued ...

Research biologists Milton Love and Mary Yoklavich recently dove more than 900 feet in a tiny submersible -- a yellow submarine, in fact -- to check on the health of more than 1,200 square miles of ...