California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Recreational Dungeness Crab Fishing Begins in Most Areas Nov. 7 with Trap Restrictions, Commercial Season Delayed

CDPH: • Domoic Acid results website (subsection Analytical Data – Crabs) • Shellfish advisories web page for latest ...
California Department of Fish and Wildlife

CDFW Seeks Public Comment Related to Veiny Monardella

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is seeking data and public comments on a petition to list veiny ...
wildlife

Upper Trinity River Nears Adult Fall-Run Chinook Quota; Fishery to Close This Week

The 2026 adult Chinook salmon fishing season will soon close on the Upper Trinity River. The closure comes as California ...
wildlife

Invasive to Avoid: Iceplant

Iceplant (Carpobrotus edulis) is a coastal succulent shrub native to the coast of South Africa, where the climate is similar to that of coastal California. Iceplant was introduced to California in the ...
wildlife

Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center

The OSPR Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center (MWVCRC) was constructed in 1997 as the primary care facility for sea otters affected by oil spills or other marine pollution events. In ...
wildlife

Waterfowl Reservation Drawing Statistics

The Department of Fish and Wildlife manages California's diverse fish, wildlife, and plant resources, and the habitats upon which they depend, for their ecological values and for their use and ...
wildlife

Battle Creek Wildlife Area

The Battle Creek Wildlife Area is 582 acres of riparian forests, marshes, and oak woodland that support a diverse variety of migratory and resident bird species, as well as aquatic and terrestrial ...
wildlife

California Recreational Fisheries Survey (CRFS)

The California Recreational Fisheries Survey (CRFS) mission is to collect fishery-dependent data on California’s marine recreational fisheries, and to accurately estimate catch and effort in a time ...
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Additional Recreational Dungeness Crab Area Delay in Portions of Humboldt County Due to Public Health Hazard

State health agencies have determined (PDF) that Dungeness crab from the southern boundary of the Reading Rock State Marine Protected Areas (41⁰ 17.6’ N. latitude) to Cape Mendocino, Humboldt County ...
wildlife

New Grant Opportunity: Delta-Based Decontamination Control Sites to Prevent the Spread of Golden Mussel

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is offering $6 million in grant funding to develop or enhance boating decontamination control efforts in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This ...
wildlife

Current California Ocean Recreational Fishing Regulations - SF Bay Region

Please see the San Francisco Management Area Recreational Groundfish Regulations Summary table for current rockfish recreational fishing regulations. The leopard shark is part of a group of fish known ...
wildlife

Current California Ocean Recreational Fishing Regulations - Central Region

Please see the Central Management Area Recreational Groundfish Regulations Summary table for current rockfish fishing regulations. The leopard shark is part of a group of fish known as groundfish, ...