CA MARINE PROTECTED AREAS, YEAR 2
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MARE continued with the Long Term Monitoring of California’s Marine Protected Areas (MPA) and sampled select sites in the southern CA MPA network in June 2020. We sampled 31 sites aboard the Outer Limits from San Diego to the Northern Channel Islands. During this 3-week expedition, we collected over 100 hours of video on 250 transects and collected over 18,000 still images. The imagery collected during this expedition will be analyzed by MARE biologists in our Eureka, CA office. Results from this expedition will be sent to our academic partners for detailed statistical analysis to help inform the State of California about the performance of the statewide network to-date.