T.Dubya.

Thought I would point out another article about Ecotrust’s involvement in the Calfornia marine life protection act initative (MLPAI).  Specifically our work interviewing fisherman in the south coast region.  The goal was to capture which areas are most important to these fisherman, by species and by port, so that people lobbying for the fisherman have the best information available and the impact of marine reserves on their bottom line can be reduced in an analytical way.

I wish I was able to show you the maps we’ve produced, they’re really something, and I really think they’re going to help the decision making process.  I should create some sample maps to display.

It’s important to remember that all of interviews are done under a very strict privacy agreement and only the summarized maps are made available so that individual fishing spots are not identifiable as much as possible.  The maps are also made available to a very small number of people for decision making.  The article doesn’t seem to make this key point very well as you’ll notice from peoples comments.