The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission

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About CalFish:  

The California Cooperative Fish and Habitat Data Program (CalFish) is a multi-agency cooperative program designed to gather, maintain, and disseminate fish and aquatic habitat data for California’s fisheries. There are many programs in California that are actively gathering, compiling, and analyzing fish and aquatic habitat data. Bringing all of this information together and making it available to a variety of users is crucial to the success of fisheries and habitat monitoring, evaluation, and management within the state.

Centralizing access to California fisheries data makes it much easier to develop and maintain statewide data standards and promote further development of related data programs in California. CalFish addresses the needs of a variety of natural resource management agencies by serving as both data publisher and data clearinghouse, providing access to original data and links to sites with related fish and aquatic habitat information.

CalFish provides direct access to many different types of fish and aquatic habitat data. These data include:

• Population trends and counts
• Distribution
• Migration barriers
  Hatcheries
• Habitat restoration projects
• Genetics
  Monitoring

Users can view these data via two basic methods: querying the database tables directly or querying the data geographically. The geographical queries are made possible with an interactive on-line mapping system. This system also provides access to a broad array of framework data (political boundaries, hydrography, quad maps, and many more) that make the spatial data easier to analyze and understand. Because the tabular and geographical databases are linked, users can move easily between the two systems.

Partners:  

CalFish is a cooperative program involving a growing number of agency and organization partners including the California Resources Agency, Departments of Fish and Game, Water Resources, Transportation, Coastal Conservancy, and NOAA Fisheries. Such cooperative support has and will continue to guide the future development of CalFish and ensure the continued usefulness of the CalFish site.

Learn More:  

For more information from PSMFC about CalFish, please contact Stan Allen, Sr. Program Manager at Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission: 503-595-3100 or visit the CalFish Program at: www.calfish.org.