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As with other countries, the 200 nautical miles (370 km) exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the coast of the United States gives its fishing industry special fishing rights. [6] It covers 11.4 million square kilometres (4.38 million sq mi), which is the second largest zone in the world, exceeding the land area of the United States. [5]
Saxidomus nuttalli is a species of large edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Veneridae, the venus clams. [1] Common names include California butterclam [1] and Washington clam. [2] This clam is native to the west coast of North America, its distribution extending from northern California to Baja California. [2]
The name of the slough derives from the native tule elk Cervus canadensis nannodes, now extirpated from the region. [5]Elkhorn Slough occupies the western reaches of Elkhorn Valley, a relic river valley eroded by drainage pouring out of the Santa Clara Valley and/or Great Valley of California (before the Golden Gate opened) into Monterey Bay during the early Pleistocene.
Captains of fishing boats on the California coast are bracing for salmon fishing to be severely restricted — or possibly canceled for a second year. Salmon populations are struggling, bringing ...
Federal fishery managers voted Wednesday to cancel all commercial and recreational salmon fishing off the coast of California for the second year in a row, and only the fourth time in state ...
The number of individual fish caught in the wild has been estimated at 0.97–2.7 trillion per year (not counting fish farms or marine invertebrates). [11] Following is a table of the 2011 world fishing industry harvest in tonnes (metric tons) by capture and by aquaculture. [10]
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The geoduck is native to the coastal waters of the eastern North Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California. [2] The shell of the clam ranges from 15 centimetres (6 in) to over 20 centimetres (8 in) in length, but the extremely long siphons make the clam itself much longer than this: the "shaft" or siphons alone can be 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) in ...