SDE Raster Dataset
Tags
halibut, Marine Protected Area (MPA), fishing, socioeconomic, baseline monitoring, Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA), monitoring, biota, location, California Central Coast, California
The primary goal of this project was to collect up-to-date information on historical trends, current socioeconomic conditions, and the spatial distribution and economic value of key commercial fisheries and the commercial passenger fishing vessel fleet in the Central Coast Region.
This data set is a part of Ecotrust's project entitled: Establishing a Baseline and Assessing Spatial and Socioeconomic Change in the California Central Coast Commercial and CPFV Fisheries. This project is a component of the California Central Coast Marine Protected Area Baseline Monitoring Project that is designed to characterize the ecological and socioeconomic conditions and changes within the Central Coast Region since MPA implementation. The Central Coast study region extends from the north at Pigeon Point to the south at Point Conception. This data set consists of data collected to inform the California Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) planning process in the summer of 2005 from fisheries mapping interviews with commercial fishermen who had California halibut--hook and line landings in the California Central Coast between 2003 and 2004. Results from the interviews were then combined through an aggregation process where the value each fisherman gives to their California halibut fishing grounds are weighted by their average annual landings for California halibut from 2000 to 2004. This data set represents the average spatial extent and relative value of California halibut commercial fishing grounds for the Central Coast Region in the years 2000 to 2004.
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Extent
West | -123.564094 | East | -120.375973 |
North | 37.328461 | South | 33.860526 |
Maximum (zoomed in) | 1:5,000 |
Minimum (zoomed out) | 1:150,000,000 |