Tribal Seas
State officials search for ways to respect marine habitats and native fishing rights BY RYAN BURNS It’s been almost a dozen years since the California legislature approved the Marine Life Protection...
View ArticleMarine preservation proposal would allow Indian tribal harvests
By Matt Weiser mweiser@sacbee.com American Indian tribes on California’s North Coast will retain the right to harvest plants and wildlife for subsistence purposes under a plan for new marine preserves...
View ArticleFish and Game Commission Votes on Effective Date for South Coast MPAs
Media Contact: Jordan Traverso, DFG Communications The California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) today selected Oct. 1, 2011 as the effective date for implementation of the marine protected...
View ArticleFishing banned from most of Laguna Beach this fall
Most of Laguna’s shoreline will be closed to anglers starting this fall. The city’s Fish and Game Commission announced that implementation of the Marine Protected Areas, or MPAs, in Southern...
View ArticleState’s no-fishing rule stinks
By David Hansen When fishing as a boy, I used to stare at my jar of salmon eggs and marvel. I wondered how they could arrive so perfectly formed and opaque and inherently controversial — stripped from...
View ArticleEd Zieralski: Conservation, not preservation, should be priority for new...
Those familiar with the Blue Ribbon Task Force and its roll in the controversial Marine Life Protection Act know how that group’s actions are being challenged in court by fishing groups. That’s why...
View ArticleSouth Coast ocean closures not approved by state’s law office
Written by Ed Zieralski In what is a blow to environmental groups who seek fishing closures off the coast of California, the marine protected areas called for by theMarine Life Protection Act’s South...
View ArticleAgencies prepare to carve up coastal waters
Unprecedented zoning process will be based on ecosystem approach BY MIKE LEE, REPORTER State officials decided last week that a hotly contested set of marine protected areas will take effect in the...
View ArticleCan Smartphones Help Stop Illegal Fishing in California?
By Sarah Rich When venturing into the waters along California’s 1,100 miles of coastline, at times it can be difficult to determine which areas are protected — where fishing and other recreational...
View ArticleHouse Panel Drafting Magnuson Reforms
By Richard Gaines | Staff Writer The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee is drafting “a comprehensive” change to the Magnuson-Stevens Act, a fisheries management law, in an attempt to ensure that...
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