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Habitats & lIKELY TO BENEFIT from California’s Marine protected Areas

35 The California Marine Protected Area (MPA) Network 1 2 3 21 was established to help conserve and restore the integrity of marine ecosystems. 37 5 4 Estuary The Network includes 124 protected areas covering 36 16 percent of state waters. There are several key 22 habitat-types found within California’s MPAs 38 39 7 including estuaries, intertidal zones, rocky reefs, kelp 6 9 Intertidal 24 forests, soft ocean bottoms, and submarine canyons. Zone 40 Over 100 species of fish, invertebrates, sea birds, 8 23 Kelp Forest marine mammals, and plants are likely to 10 25 42 benefit from MPA protections. Those species 41 include ones that spend all or significant 26 45 43 portions of their lives within MPAs. 11 27 44 48 California’s ecologically connected MPA Soft Bottom 28 47 Network is the largest of its kind in the 13 29 46 world. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife manages the 50 Network and works in collaboration 14 49 12 with key partners and local 51 communities to monitor, protect, 15 52 ROcky Reef 30 and sustain California’s unique 16 coastal heritage. 18 33 53 54 How many species Deep Ocean Canyon can you identify? 17 19 32 Use the key below 31 20 to check your work. 55 34 56 Illustration: Gary Bloomfield

Note: this illustration is intended to convey species likely to benefit from MPAs along the entirety of California’s coast. The six habitat-types and 56 species pictured are unlikely to occur within such close proximity to each other.

1. California Gull 9. Western Grebe 17. Purple Urchin 25. 33. Wolf-eel 41. Olive Rockfish 49. Bat Ray Larus californicus Aechmophorus occidentalis Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Mytilus californianus Anarrhichthys ocellatus Sebastes serranoides Myliobatis californica 2. Western Gull 10. Pacific Littleneck Clam 18. Rock 26. Shiner Surfperch 34. Giant Kelp 42. Brandt’s Cormorant 50. Purple Gorgonian Larus occidentalis Leukoma staminea gigantea Cymatogaster aggregata Macrocystis pyrifera Phalacrocorax penicillatus Eugorgia rubens 3. Heermann’s Gull 11. Gooseneck 19. Monkeyface Prickleback 27. Bull Kelp 35. Brown Pelican 43. Harbor Seal 51. California Sea Hare Larus heermanni Cebidichthys violaceus Nereocystis luetkeana Pelecanus occidentalis Phoca vitulina Aplysia californica 4. Long-billed Curlew 12. Red 20. Ochre Star 28. Surf Smelt 36. Rhinoceros Auklet 44. Blue Rockfish 52. Flag Rockfish Numenius americanus Octopus rubescens ochraceus Hypomesus pretiosus Cerorhinca monocerata Sebastes mystinus Sebastes rubrivinctus 5. Brant 13. Red Abalone 21. Caspian Tern 29. Copper Rockfish 37. Sooty Shearwater 45. Market Squid 53. Spot Prawn Branta bernicla Haliotis rufescens Hydroprogne caspia Sebastes caurinus Ardenna grisea Doryteuthis (Amerigo) opalescens Pandalus platyceros 6. Snowy Plover 14. Turban 22. Pigeon Guillemot 30. California Spiny Lobster 38. Common Murre 46. Leopard Shark 54. Vermilion Rockfish Charadrius nivosus Tegula funebralis Cepphus columba Panulirus interruptus Uria aalge Triakis semifasciata Sebastes miniatus 7. Dunlin 15. California Sea Cucumber 23. Black Oystercatcher 31. Black-and-Yellow Rockfish 39. Harbor Porpoise 47. C-O Turbot 55. Lingcod Calidris alpina Apostichopus californicus Haematopus bachmani Sebastes chrysomelas Phocoena phocoena Pleuronichthys coenosus Ophiodon elongatus 8. Sanderling 16. Cabezon 24. Black Turnstone 32. Red Urchin 40. California Sea Lion 48. Dungeness Crab 56. Pacific Hagfish Calidris alba Scorpaenichthys marmoratus Arenaria melanocephala Mesocentrotus franciscanus Zalophus californianus Metacarcinus magister Eptatretus stoutii