The California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program (CCFRP) is a partnership of people and communities interested in fisheries sustainability.  By combining the expertise and ideas of fishers and scientists, we have successfully established protocols to gather information for fisheries management.

Investigating independent and combined impacts of temperature, acidification, and deoxygenation on the physiology, performance, and population dynamics of sea urchins whose grazing shapes nearshore ecosystems. 

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. Investigating spatiotemporal patterns of sea urchin grazer physiology and macroalgal nutritional quality as a function of coastal upwelling exposure in the Tropical Eastern Pacific.  

(Project website) Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area Reserve, and Haida Heritage Site 

Collaborative research on the 1) impacts of multiple environmental drivers on the physiology and performance of the endangered Sunflower Sea Star across its entire developmental life cycle, and 2) feasibility of culturing and reintroducing these important mesopredators for conservation of coastal biodiversity and ecosystem services.