Analyses of the white seabass commercial fishery and the regulations governing it revealed that management techniques in use since 1931 have probably affected the yield. Values from catch-per-unit-of-effort, weight-length, age-growth, and population parameters were utilized in an equation to determine the best possible equilibrium yield under existing environmental, biological, and socio-economic conditions. Results indicate that under present fishery practices (namely, fishing on only a portion of the resource) the yield in weight per recruit could be increased if actual harvesting were to begin at age 5 (28 inches TL). Current regulations have sufficient latitude to permit the fishery, on its own volition, to harvest younger fish, namely 5- to 8-year-olds rather than 8- to 11-year-olds.