@Aaron The buoys are piled on top of each other at the La Jolla Cove
boundary, San Diego Bay commercial boundary, and the Santa Monica
Bay commercial boundary. Are they there by accident?
It took me 5 minutes to google this up.
http://cmbc.ucsd.edu/Students/Curren...llEtAl2007.pdf
From page 36,
"The last important pattern is that fishing is concentrated near the western edge
of the Reserve. This area has good lobster habitat (as defined in Parnell et al.
2006), but it is still fished disproportionately higher than similar habitat further
south. This suggests that the fishermen are targeting spillover from the reserve.
This argument is further supported by the fact that fishermen are concentrating
their traps near the Reserve proportionately more during the middle and latter
stages of the season suggesting that most of the legal-sized lobster left by the end
of the season are those moving out of the Reserve. Traps were also observed
immediately north of the northern boundary of the Reserve during the latter half
of the season. This entire area is a sandy shelf and devoid of lobster habitat and
therefore was not surveyed for traps. However, the presence of traps in such poor
habitat during the latter part of the season, and not near the beginning, further
suggests that the fishermen are fishing spillover from the Reserve."
The most important question is: Do you really think that
any statement
made by me would change the vote of the 5 people that really matter?