Marine Protected Area Monitoring Data Visualizations
California’s marine protected area (MPA) monitoring, a state-led program, is heading into a new future. As the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the California Ocean Protection Council develop new products and platforms for showcasing MPA work, this site will act as a bridge, providing existing information on MPAs and fisheries in California.
The applications and blogs on this site are drawn from the retired platform OceanSpaces, which previously served the stateas the go-to place for the latest information on monitoring the state’s MPA network. The California Natural Resources Agency is continuing the development of an open data platform that will eventually house all the data and products, including these applications, related to California’s MPA network. Many of the raw data and reports are already available at https://data.cnra.ca.gov/.
Resource Archive
Fisheries Data Explorer
Explore California’s State Fisheries
This interactive Fisheries Data Explorer allows you to visualize data from commercial fisheries and commercial passenger fishing vessels, across the State. Using data collected and managed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), the Explorer lets you dynamically view summarized data from the commercial fishing sector (i.e., number of fishermen, pounds of fish landed, and revenue from fish landed) and from the commercial passenger fishing sector (i.e., the number of anglers, vessels, trips, and fish caught from specific fisheries and ports).
Funded by the California Ocean Protection Council, and developed in partnership with CDFW and the California Ocean Science Trust, the Explorer was developed through the California's Marine Protected Area Monitoring Program, to ensure that the State’s decision-makers, stakeholders, and the public have ready access to data and information that support the health and management of California’s ocean.
Fisheries Data Explorer: http://tools.oceanspaces.org/fisheriesdataexplorer
Monitoring Dashboard
Explore California Coastal Monitoring
Use this interactive dashboard to explore who’s monitoring what, where along the California coast from Point Arena to the US-Mexico border. Data in the dashboard come from the results of the North Central, Central, and South Coast Monitoring Surveys. California Ocean Science Trust and its partners at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the California Ocean Protection Council are using the survey results to inform statewide MPA monitoring.
We encourage you to explore this dashboard to learn about monitoring projects in each of these regions, make new connections, and continue to grow the monitoring community!
Monitoring Dashboard: http://tools.oceanspaces.org/dash#/welcome/
Data Map Viewer
Explore California Protected Areas
Explore data collected from protected areas in California. Search the map by ecosystem, keyword, or timeframe of data collected. The map shows state and federal protected areas along the California coast, including islands.
Fisheries Data Explorer: http://oceanspaces.org/map.html
