The Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun is the oversight body that licenses and regulates maritime pilots who guide vessels entering or leaving those bays and navigate on their tributaries to Sacramento and Stockton. The Board's area of jurisdiction also extends to ships entering and leaving Monterey Bay.

The Board's responsibilities include training and licensing maritime pilots, incident investigation, approval of pilot boat acquisitions and capital improvements, oversight of the San Francisco Bar Pilot Pension Plan, and pilotage fee rate recommendations. More.....