Location
Key Information
| 19 km2 | MARINE AREA |
| 19 km2 | TOTAL AREA i |
Boundary: California Department of Fish and Wildlife (Unmodified)
2.0
October 2023
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Purpose
To protect and preserve species and their habitats, such as the rich kelp forest ecosystem of abalone, crabs, lobster, eel, garibaldi, rock fish, sheepshead, giant sea bass, sea lions, sea urchins, and many others, whose home range, behavior, reproduction, exploitation rate or population status indicates that they will benefit from spatial management, including species that are directly targeted by fisheries, those which are caught as bycatch and which cannot be returned to the water with a high rate of survival, and those which may be indirectly impacted through ecological changes.
Species of Concern: Seabirds, Sea Lions, Seals, Whales
Regulations Summary
Restrictions
It is unlawful to injure, damage, take, or possess any living, geological, or cultural marine resource for commercial or recreational purposes, or a combination of commercial and recreational purposes, with exceptions.
Allowed
Recreational take of spiny lobster and pelagic finfish, and the commercial take of spiny lobster are allowed.
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians are exempt from these area and take regulations.