Our team monitors juvenile rockfish recruitment and ocean conditions in the waters off the California coast to provide annual data used in fisheries management.
Climate change is affecting where fish live, what they eat, and how many of them survive in the ocean. Learn more about what is changing and what we are doing to understand the effects of climate change on fish stocks.
The WPSAR process is a cooperative effort to improve the quality, timeliness, objectivity, and integrity of stock assessments for the Pacific Islands region.
NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Sustainable Fisheries updates the status of fish stocks managed under federal fishery management plans based on stock assessments completed during that quarter.