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Arrow Point to Lion Head Point (SMCA) is a marine protected area on Catalina Island that includes offshore, island marine habitat off California’s south coast. The SMCA covers 0.67 square miles (1.7 km 2). In general an SMCA protects marine life by limiting the removal of marine wildlife from within their borders.
Santa Catalina Island (Spanish: Isla Santa Catalina; often shortened to Catalina Island or Catalina, and also known as Pimu [1] as the traditional name of the Indigenous people of the Tongva Tribe) is a rocky island, part of the Channel Islands, off the coast of Southern California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island covers an area of ...
Two Harbors Isthmus in Santa Catalina Island; on the right, or northeast, is Isthmus Cove (aka Banning Harbor) and on the left, or southwest, is Catalina (or Cat) Harbor. Cat Harbor State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is a marine protected area that includes offshore, island marine habitat at Catalina Island off California's south coast
Bird Rock State Marine Conservation Area and Blue Cavern State Marine Conservation Areas (SMCA) are two contiguous marine protected areas that include offshore, island marine habitat at Catalina Island off California's south coast. The SMCAs covers 7.69 and 2.61 square miles respectively.
Garibaldi, the state fish of California, photographed near Catalina Island's Casino Point State Marine Conservation Area There are both state and federal marine protected areas off the coast of California.
The Catalina Island Marine Institute (CIMI) is a non-profit educational program founded in 1979 and run by Guided Discoveries on Santa Catalina Island, California.. It is the host to approximately 15,000 students a year, who visit it in school-organized trips and summer camps.
Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve (SMR) and Piedras Blancas State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) are two adjoining marine protected areas that lie offshore of San Luis Obispo County on California's central coast. The combined area of these marine protected areas is 19.68 square miles (51.0 km 2). The SMR protects all marine life within its ...
The Gulf of Santa Catalina, also the Gulf of Catalina, is a gulf in the Pacific Ocean on the West Coast of the United States. The eastern coast of the gulf belongs to the states of California, United States, and Baja California, Mexico. The largest town on the shore of the gulf is San Diego. The islands in the gulf include Santa Catalina Island.