California Marine Protected Areas
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Important: On January 1, 2012, new regulations went into effect off the
Southern California coast from Point Conception to the CA/Mexico border.
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- Abalone Cove State Marine Conservation Area
- Albany Mudflats State Marine Park
- Anacapa Island Special Closure
- Anacapa Island State Marine Conservation Area
- Anacapa Island State Marine Reserve
- Año Nuevo State Marine Conservation Area
- Arrow Point to Lion Head Point State Marine Conservation Area (Catalina Island)
- Asilomar State Marine Reserve
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- Bair Island State Marine Park
- Batiquitos Lagoon State Marine Conservation Area
- Begg Rock State Marine Reserve (San Nicholas Island Quad)
- Big Creek State Marine Conservation Area
- Big Creek State Marine Reserve
- Bird Rock State Marine Conservation Area (Catalina Island)
- Blue Cavern State Marine Conservation Area (Catalina Island)
- Bodega Head State Marine Conservation Area
- Bodega Head State Marine Reserve
- Bolsa Bay State Marine Conservation Area
- Bolsa Chica Basin State Marine Conservation Area
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- Cabrillo State Marine Reserve
- Cambria State Marine Conservation Area
- Campus Point State Marine Conservation Area
- Carmel Bay State Marine Conservation Area
- Carmel Pinnacles State Marine Reserve
- Carrington Point State Marine Reserve (Santa Rosa Island)
- Casino Point State Marine Conservation Area (Catalina Island)
- Cat Harbor State Marine Conservation Area (Catalina Island)
- Corte Madera Marsh State Marine Park
- Crystal Cove State Marine Conservation Area
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- Dana Point State Marine Conservation Area
- Del Mar Landing State Marine Reserve
- Double Point/Stormy Stack Rock Special Closure
- Drake's Estero State Marine Conservation Area
- Duxbury Reef State Marine Conservation Area
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- Edward F. Ricketts State Marine Conservation Area
- Egg (Devil's Slide) Rock to Devil's Slide Special Closure
- Elkhorn Slough State Marine Conservation Area
- Elkhorn Slough State Marine Reserve
- Estero Americano State Marine Recreational Management Area
- Estero de Limantour State Marine Reserve
- Estero de San Antonio State Marine Recreational Management Area
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- Fagan Marsh State Marine Park
- Famosa Slough State Marine Conservation Area
- Farnsworth Offshore State Marine Conservation Area (Catalina Island)
- Farnsworth Onshore State Marine Conservation Area (Catalina Island)
- Footprint State Marine Reserve (Anacapa Channel)
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- Gerstle Cove State Marine Reserve
- Goleta Slough State Marine Conservation Area
- Greyhound Rock State Marine Conservation Area
- Gull Island State Marine Reserve (Santa Cruz Island)
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- Harris Point State Marine Reserve (San Miguel Island)
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- Judith Rock State Marine Reserve (San Miguel Island)
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- Kashtayit State Marine Conservation Area
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- Laguna Beach State Marine Conservation Area
- Laguna Beach State Marine Reserve
- Long Point State Marine Reserve (Catalina Island)
- Lover's Cove State Marine Conservation Area (Catalina Island)
- Lovers Point State Marine Reserve
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- MacKerricher State Marine Conservation Area
- Marin Islands State Marine Park
- Matlahuayl State Marine Reserve
- Montara State Marine Reserve
- Moro Cojo Slough State Marine Reserve
- Morro Bay State Marine Recreational Management Area
- Morro Bay State Marine Reserve
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- Naples State Marine Conservation Area
- Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve
- North Farallon Islands Special Closure
- North Farallon Islands State Marine Reserve
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- Pacific Grove Marine Gardens State Marine Conservation Area
- Painted Cave State Marine Conservation Area (Santa Cruz Island)
- Peytonia Slough State Marine Park
- Piedras Blancas State Marine Conservation Area
- Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve
- Pillar Point State Marine Conservation Area
- Point Arena State Marine Conservation Area
- Point Arena State Marine Reserve
- Point Buchon State Marine Conservation Area
- Point Buchon State Marine Reserve
- Point Cabrillo State Marine Conservation Area
- Point Conception State Marine Reserve
- Point Dume State Marine Conservation Area
- Point Dume State Marine Reserve
- Point Lobos State Marine Conservation Area
- Point Lobos State Marine Reserve
- Point Resistance Rock Special Closure
- Point Reyes Headlands Special Closure
- Point Reyes State Marine Conservation Area
- Point Reyes State Marine Reserve
- Point Sur State Marine Conservation Area
- Point Sur State Marine Reserve
- Point Vicente State Marine Conservation Area
- Portuguese Ledge State Marine Conservation Area
- Punta Gorda State Marine Reserve
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- Redwood Shores State Marine Park
- Richardson Rock State Marine Reserve (San Miguel Island)
- Robert W. Crown State Marine Conservation Area
- Russian Gulch State Marine Conservation Area
- Russian River State Marine Conservation Area
- Russian River State Marine Recreational Management Area
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- Salt Point State Marine Conservation Area
- San Diego-Scripps Coastal State Marine Conservation Area
- San Dieguito Lagoon State Marine Conservation Area
- San Elijo Lagoon State Marine Conservation Area
- San Miguel Island Special Closure
- Santa Barbara Island State Marine Reserve
- Saunders Reef State Marine Conservation Area
- Scorpion State Marine Reserve (Santa Cruz Island)
- Sea Lion Cove State Marine Conservation Area
- Skunk Point State Marine Reserve (Santa Rosa Island)
- Soquel Canyon State Marine Conservation Area
- South La Jolla State Marine Conservation Area
- South La Jolla State Marine Reserve
- South Point State Marine Reserve (Santa Rosa Island)
- Southeast Farallon Island Special Closure
- Southeast Farallon Island State Marine Conservation Area
- Southeast Farallon Island State Marine Reserve
- Stewarts Point State Marine Conservation Area
- Stewarts Point State Marine Reserve
- Swami's State Marine Conservation Area
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- Tijuana River Mouth State Marine Conservation Area
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- Upper Newport Bay State Marine Conservation Area
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- Van Damme State Marine Conservation Area
- Vandenberg State Marine Reserve
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- White Rock (Cambria) State Marine Conservation Area