NOAA Fisheries Closes Southern California Waters to Swordfish Drift Gillnet Fishery - Oceana USA

Victory | June 1, 2016

NOAA Fisheries Closes Southern California Waters to Swordfish Drift Gillnet Fishery

Effective today, NOAA Fisheries closed the Pacific Loggerhead Conservation Area—more than 25,000 square miles of southern California ocean waters—to drift gillnets targeting swordfish. The closure is intended to protect endangered Pacific loggerhead sea turtles from entanglement and drowning.