Finfish PreMPA - Hook and Line Commercial Fishery - Central Region [ds1077]

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 Nearshore finfish-live--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 Nearshore finfish-live fishing grounds are weighted by their average annual landings for Nearshore finfish-live from 2000 to 2004. This data set represents the average spatial extent and relative value of Nearshore finfish-live commercial fishing grounds for the Central Coast Region in the years 2000 to 2004.