This GIS feature class represents the sampling design, implemented in 2004, for the Southern California Shelf Rockfish Hook and Line Survey. This survey is conducted annually by the Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries. The survey uses a fixed station design of 121 sites that are targeted for sampling each year. During the period 2014-2017, the survey added 80 new sites within the two Cowcod Conservation Areas, bringing the survey’s sampling frame to 201 total sites. Each site is represented by a specific GPS coordinate, and all sampling drifts must be initiated within a 100-yard radius of this point. Sampling at each site consists of three deckhand-anglers making five coordinate drops (drifts) of a standardized five-hook sampling gangion; thus a total of 75 hooks are deployed at each site. The gear is deployed by rod and reel.