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People are an integral part of California’s coastal ecosystem, and state and federal fishery policy directs managers to consider fishing communities in their decision-making processes. To understand the dynamic relationship between people and the environment through the lens of California’s marine protected areas (MPAs), we need to understand current and historical uses of coastal resources.
To support the evaluation of California’s MPA network performance, from 2019-2021 seven studies were funded to monitor the ecosystem and human dimensions of the state’s 124 MPAs. Results of these monitoring studies will inform a 10-year management review of the MPA network, beginning in 2022.
The MPA Human Uses study involved developing an approach to assess baseline socioeconomic conditions of two human uses throughout the state of California and their relationship to the MPA network: commercial and commercial passenger fishing vessel (CPFV) fisheries.
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