The phone number for a Morro Bay sport fishing company landed on a rapper’s merchandise last week — and now fans have been calling their office. The phone number for Virg’s Landing ...

MORRO BAY, Calif. — In this foggy Central Coast fishing town, two icons tower above everything. One is Morro Rock, the 23-million-year-old plug of an ancient volcano, rising 576 feet out of the sea.

Morro Bay is a safe harbor to many — a place where boats can easily get in and out, a luxury and recreational fishing place, and home to the U.S. Coast Guard — but it's not immune to issues ...

Jeff French, who — at least according to his neighbors in the slips — has been fishing these waters since ... utility the Morro Bay smokestacks have today. There are three of them.

Bill Blue has been commercially fishing Dungeness crab and black cod near the shores of Morro Bay for 47 years. It’s a business that he got into when he was 19 years old. “That’s all I know.

Monica Almeida for The New York Times MORRO BAY, Calif. — From the shore of this otherwise quaint fishing village rises a pair of imposing landmarks, one built by nature and the other by man.