Fishery impacts - CA commercial lobster catch and effort, and trap distribution around marine reserves

These data describe landings and fishing effort for the CA
commercial spiny lobster fishery. Data are contained in two
tables: 1) a time series collected by the California Fish and
Wildlife (CDFW) of lobster catch (kg) and effort (lobster trap
pulls) by year (1998-2020) and location (geographic fishery
blocks). Catch is recorded and reported to CDFW by fish processors
(buyers) with “fish tickets”. Trap pulls are recorded and reported
by fishermen with logbooks. 2) The number of traps counted in the
water at increasing distances from the boundary of marine
reserves, three reserves located in the northern region of the
fishery and three from the southern region of the fishery, in
November 2022.