Lobster—trap commercial fishing grounds, Oceanside , Post MPA

This data set is a part of Point 97's project entitled: Establishing a Baseline and Assessing Initial Spatial and Economic Change in the California South Coast Commercial Fisheries. This project is a component of the California South Coast Marine Protected Area Baseline Monitoring Project that is designed to characterize the ecological and socioeconomic conditions and changes within the South Coast Region since MPA implementation. The South Coast study region extends from the north at Point Conception to the south at the California/Mexico border. This data set consists of data collected in the summer of 2013 from fisheries mapping interviews conducted with commercial fishermen who had lobster—trap landings in Oceanside in 2012. During interviews fishermen were asked to map their fishing grounds for 2012 and determine the relative importance of each fishing ground by allocating 100 pennies across their fishing grounds for this fishery. The spatial data from these interviews were then combined through an aggregation process where the weighted fishing grounds each fisherman gave were further weighted by their ex-vessel revenue from the lobster—trap fishery in 2012. This created spatial data sets for each port for this fishery. For regional or all port data sets, port level data was aggregated by weighting each port by the port’s total ex-vessel revenue in 2012 for the fishery based on California Department of Fish and Wildlife commercial landings data. This data set represents the spatial extent and relative value of lobster—trap commercial fishing grounds for Oceanside in the year 2012.

本数据集隶属于Point 97项目，项目全称为《建立加州南海岸商业渔业基线并评估其初始空间与经济变化》（Establishing a Baseline and Assessing Initial Spatial and Economic Change in the California South Coast Commercial Fisheries）。该项目是加州南海岸海洋保护区（Marine Protected Area, MPA）基线监测项目的组成部分，旨在表征南海岸地区自MPA实施以来的生态与社会经济状况及其变化。本次南海岸研究区域北起康塞普西翁角（Point Conception），南至加州与墨西哥边境。本数据集包含2013年夏季开展的渔业制图访谈数据，访谈对象为2012年在欧申赛德（Oceanside）有龙虾陷阱捕捞渔获上岸的商业渔民。访谈期间，渔民需绘制2012年的捕捞作业海域地图，并通过为各捕捞海域分配总计100个单位的权重，以此确定各海域的相对重要性。随后，通过聚合流程整合本次访谈获取的空间数据：将每位渔民提供的加权捕捞海域数据，以其2012年龙虾陷阱捕捞业的上岸收入进行再次加权。由此生成该渔业各港口的空间数据集。若需生成区域或全港口数据集，则依据加州鱼类与野生动物局（California Department of Fish and Wildlife）的商业渔获上岸数据，以各港口2012年该渔业的总上岸收入为权重，聚合各港口层面的数据。本数据集即为2012年欧申赛德龙虾陷阱捕捞商业作业海域的空间范围与相对价值表征。