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CDFW Holding Public Workshops to Promote Grant Funding Opportunities
Central and Southern California
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CDFW Announces Depth Restriction for the Commercial Dungeness Crab Fishery
California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Director Charlton H. Bonham has assessed entanglement risk under the Risk Assessment Mitigation Program (RAMP) and implemented a 30-fathom depth constraint
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CDFW Provides Nearly $36 Million for Projects to Save Salmon and Other California Fish and Wildlife Species
Saving salmon and rebuilding their populations for future Californians involves many key actions including investing in and restoring salmon strongholds as climate refugia, increasing partnerships, working with Tribes, doing more large-scale restoration at a faster pace, modernizing old infrastructure and creating fish passage around migration barriers. Today’s awards invest in those types of salmon projects.
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CDFW Announces Closure of Commercial Dungeness Crab Fishery
The take and possession of Dungeness crab is therefore prohibited after noon on April 15, 2023, in fishing zones 3-6.
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CDFW Launches Immediate Efforts to Save Clear Lake Hitch
Actions include $2 million in state funding to remove barriers to hitch migration
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CDFW Using Winter Storms to Help Increase Survival of Chinook Salmon
Several releases have already happened, and others are planned over the next few weeks to utilize good in-river habitat conditions for these young salmon.
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CDFW Announces $22.5 Million to Benefit Salmon and Support Critical Habitat Projects Statewide
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) today announced the award of $22.5 million to 19 projects to support the restoration of critical habitat for salmon, climate resiliency, wildlife corridors and wetlands restoration.
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CDFW Lifts Trap Restrictions in the Commercial and Recreational Dungeness Crab Fisheries
CDFW will lift the 50 percent commercial fishery trap reduction
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CDFW News
CDFW Continues Partial Recreational Crab Trap Restriction and Commercial Dungeness Crab Fishery Delay to Protect Whales from Entanglement and Due to Low Crab Quality
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CDFW introduces Autorenewal Fishing Licenses
Sport anglers in California have the option of signing up for automated renewal of their sport fishing licenses, report cards, and validations through the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Online License Sales and Services website.
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Have you filled out CDFW’s survey about striped bass angling preferences?
CDFW is soliciting public input on a proposed regulation change that would restrict the harvest of striped bass to a “slot limit” between 20 and 30 inches for inland anadromous waters.
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CA Delta Sturgeon (Plus Trammel Netting With The CDFW)
Join Zach & Virginia from Gate Crashers along with Todd Storm & Dylan Stompe from the California Dept. Of Fish & Wildlife for an interesting and informative morning of sturgeon fishing.
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CDFW Director Statement on FERC Release of EIS on Klamath Dam Removal
California Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Charlton H. Bonham issued the following statement
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CDFW’s new team of wildlife conflict specialists
Support in response to human-wildlife conflict reported from the public