Tag Archives: research and monitoring

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> If you’ve ever been fishing off the coast of California, you’ve likely captured a rockfish, and perhaps even captured a rockfish that you had to throw back.  If this is familiar to you, the sight of a blown up rockfish with eyes bulging, and something coming […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> While both are deeply invested in the future of the state’s coastal waters, fishermen and ocean scientists haven’t always agreed on the need for or proper location of marine protected areas (MPAs) in California. Yet both agree on the need for MPA monitoring. The California Collaborative Fisheries […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Tracking the health of our oceans is a large, complicated job – but by working together, we can meet the challenge. California is investing in baseline monitoring of the statewide network of marine protected areas (MPAs) and groups and individuals are stepping up to contribute time, […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Let the learning begin. The planning of California’s open coast statewide marine protected area (MPA) network is now complete-the Fish and Game Commission approved plans for the final stretch of northern coastline on June 6. Yet establishing the network was just the first chapter in the […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> OceanSpaces is an online community that fosters new knowledge of ocean health. The platform brings everyone together with a stake in the health of California’s oceans – scientists, fishermen, policymakers and citizens – offering new opportunities for individuals to communicate, create and share information. A shared […]