Figure 3
Annual summed values of the commercial mainland spiny lobster fishery in California for: (A) lobster catch (kg) and (B) fishing effort (trap pulls) for reserve (solid circles) and control (open circles) fishing blocks. These data are for the entire fishery (north and south regions combined). Reserve blocks (n = 12) are jurisdictional fishing blocks with marine reserves and control blocks (n = 22) are fishing blocks without reserves. The vertical dotted lines designate when the reserves were established and include a transitional year (2012) not used in the calculations of the Delta values shown in Figs. 2, 4, and 5.
