Pacific Herring Commercial Fishing in Ocean Waters

Pacific Herring Commercial Fishing in Ocean Waters

NOTE: Supplemental Environmental Document The project to be described is commercial fishing as an element of the Department's Pacific herring management program. The locations of the project are San Francisco Bay, Tomales Bay, Humboldt Bay and Crescent City Harbor. Herring are primarily harvested for their roe (eggs) during the months of December through March (spawning season) using small mesh gill nets to take whole fish. The existing herring fishery is closely regulated through a catch quota system. Other management options under which the fishery has been conducted and which are available to the Commission include, but are not limited to, a limit on the number of permittees, seasons, gear restrictions, closed fishing areas, and landing and monitoring restrictions.

Statewide

California Coastal Commission (CCC), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of State Parks, Division of Boating and Waterways, California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Department of Fish and Wildlife, Marine Region, Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality

Other (Marine Resources Planning)

Harvest

Biological Resources, Coastal Zone, Cumulative Effects, Economics/Jobs, Fiscal Impacts, Hydrology/Water Quality, Noise, Recreation, Transportation, Vegetation