1. An overview of CALobster (California Lobster Collaborative) Matt Kay – UC Santa Barbara

2. What is CALobster? A regional partnership among Santa Barbara area lobstermen, academic marine scientists, policy analysts and economists, state and federal management agencies and non-profit organizations.

4. Develop co-management structure and governance Advance fishery science through collaboration Improve fishery management through EBFM Assess MPA performance and use as research tools (e.g. stock assessment) Develop socioeconomic understanding and explore market strategies Develop decision models for management that utilize empirical data and encourage learning …and…INTEGRATE! CALobster Goals and Objectives

5. Fisheries Research Lenihan & Kay Ecology, EFI & monitoring Chris Miller Fishery leader Chris Costello Economic modeling Carla Guenther MPA economics Donna Schroeder Coll. Fish. Coordinator Oran Young Gail Osherenko Rod Fujita (ED) EconomicsGovernance CALobster Heather Coleman Adaptive learning model Management (DFG) Kristine Barsky John Ugoretz Hilborn Lab Stock assessment

6. Fisheries research plan Port sampling of commercial catch Trap based tagging studies Port sampling regions during 2004-05 and 2005-06 lobster seasons.

8. Trap based tagging studies Population size structure inside vs. outside Movement, habitat associations (mapping, SCUBA) Growth rates Age structure of fished vs. non-fished (MPA as tool here - natural vs. fishing mortality estimates for stock assessment models) What can we learn? Port sampling Monitoring of fishery over space and time Habitat associations (seafloor mapping, at sea sampling, SCUBA)

9. Port sampling of commercial catch Trap-based tagging studies Fisheries research plan

10. Trap based tagging studies

11. Population size structure inside vs. outside (compare to port sampling for outside sites) Movement (including spillover), habitat associations (mapping, SCUBA) Growth rates Age structure of fished vs. non-fished areas (MPA’s as tools - natural vs. fishing mortality estimates for stock assessment models) What can we learn? Port sampling Monitoring of fishery over space and time Habitat associations (seafloor mapping, at sea sampling, SCUBA)

12. Fisheries Research Lenihan & Kay Ecology, EFI & monitoring Chris Miller Fishery leader Chris Costello Economic modeling Carla Guenther MPA economics Donna Schroeder Coll. Fish. Coordinator Oran Young Gail Osherenko Rod Fujita (ED) EconomicsGovernance CALobster Heather Coleman Adaptive learning model Management (DFG) Kristine Barsky John Ugoretz Hilborn Lab Stock assessment

13. Carla’s Questions and Research Plan Logbook Landmark Database Landings Receipts Query Results Fishermen Interviews Causal Chains of observed impacts 1 2 3 4 5 GIS 6 Economic Data 5 5 Physical Data Report to DFG, CLTFA, CINMS and UCSB How have spatial closures affected commercial trappers’ earnings and CPUE in the Northern Channel Islands? How has the Santa Barbara Bight commercial lobster fishery adapted to the marine reserve network restrictions? What is the net socio-economic effect of the reserves on the lobster fishery?