Feb 5, 2021 | 1North Coast, 2Central Coast, 3South Coast, 4MPA Research and Monitoring, Citizen Science, Del Norte, Golden Gate, Los Angeles, Monterey, Orange County, San Diego, Santa Barbara Channel, Santa Cruz
MPA Watch annual reports for the period starting January 1, 2020 and ending December 31, 2020 are now available on the MPA Watch website. You may access them by clicking here. Marine Protected Area (MPA) Watch is a network of programs that support healthy oceans...
Feb 1, 2021 | 3South Coast, 4MPA Research and Monitoring, New Research, Santa Barbara Channel
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are designed to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services. Some MPAs are also established to benefit fisheries through increased egg and larval production, or the spillover of mobile juveniles and adults. Whether spillover influences...
Jan 22, 2021 | 4MPA Research and Monitoring
Are marine protected areas working?In order to understand whether marine protected areas (MPAs) are doing their job protecting our oceans, we have to monitor them. Just as a doctor may measure your heartbeat or blood pressure, researchers measure ocean chemistry,...
Jan 19, 2021 | 4MPA Research and Monitoring, Field Stories, New Research
Just beyond California’s kelp forests, patches of rock and sandy seafloor stretch from about 100 feet to over 300 feet deep at the edge of the continental shelf in what scientists call the mid-depth rocky reef ecosystem. This zone comprises around 75% of the state’s...
Dec 11, 2020 | 1North Coast, 2Central Coast, 3South Coast, 4MPA Research and Monitoring, 5MPA Outreach and Education, 6MPA Enforcement, MPA Events & Gatherings
The MPA Collaborative Network has recently formed an Estuary Working Group (EWG) in response to expressed compliance concerns that illustrated a need to dedicate more attention and resources to estuarine MPAs. This group is still growing with lots of direct outreach...
Dec 4, 2020 | 3South Coast, 4MPA Research and Monitoring, New Research, San Diego
“So as you see behind me, there are a lot of these opportunity parcels that we like to call them,” Pukini said. “These orphan wetlands that are in and around a lot of the currently existing wetlands in San Diego County that have the potential to be restored to enhance...
