Gulf of California

Parts of the Gulf of California are a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The most common commercial fishery that accidentally takes loggerheads are bottom trawls used for shrimp vessels in the Gulf of California.

Although some fin whales are apparently present year-round in the Gulf of California, a significant increase occurs in their numbers in the winter and spring.

Feeding areas during migration seem to include the Gulf of California, Monterey Bay and Baja California Sur.

Its natural habitat ranges from southeast Alaska to central Mexico, including the Gulf of California.

This species is the most important squid worldwide for commercial fisheries, with the catch predominantly landed in Chile, Peru and Mexico; however, a 2015 warming waters fishery collapse in the Gulf of California remains unrecovered.

In Mexico, the species' range flanks the Gulf of California in Sonora and Baja California.

The olive ridley is also found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Galápagos Islands and Chile north to the Gulf of California, and along the Pacific coast to at least Oregon.

A. californica is found along the coast of California, United States, and northwestern Mexico (including the Gulf of California).

In North America, it winters regularly along both coasts, ranging as far south as the Baja California Peninsula and the Gulf of California in north-western Mexico; it has been recorded as a vagrant in the interior Mexican state of Hidalgo.

During winter, lesser yellowlegs at the Atlantic coast of North America, from New Jersey southward, travel along the Pacific coast as far north as San Francisco Bay, and throughout the coastal regions of the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California.

In the eastern Pacific, it is known to occur from Oregon to El Salvador (including the Gulf of California), around the Cocos and Galapagos Islands, and off Peru and Chile.

In the Pacific Ocean, nurse sharks are found in waters off the coast of Estero de La Bocana, Baja California Sur (26.8159°N latitude and -113.7945°W longitude) in Central America along the Pacific coast and completely inhabiting the Gulf of California, and to just south of the coast of Nazca, Peru (-15.2830°S latitude and -75.6732°W longitude) in South America.

Distribution Mexico (Gulf of California: Monserrate, Carmen, Soronados islands)