Since 1949, The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries
Investigations (CalCOFI), a unique partnership among NOAA
Fisheries Service, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the
California Department of Fish and Game, has been monitoring the
California Current. The information is used to better understand
the marine environment off the coast of California, relevant to
the management of its living resources in a changing climate.
CalCOFI conducts quarterly cruises off southern & south-central
California, collecting a suite of hydrographic and biological
data on station and underway. This season's survey is conducted
upon NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and R/V Ocean Starr (formerly
NOAA Ship David Starr Jordan now operated by Ocean Services,
Inc) Follow the progress of the first part of this season's
survey on the CalCOFI Twitter feed: CalCOFI Twitter site The
researchers post near real-time maps of the relative number of
fish eggs for coastal pelagic species (sardine, jack mackerel,
anchovy) collected using the con