Using innovative technology to improve fisheries management and facilitate market access for

small-scale fishers

California Groundfish Collective Case Study

Kate (Labrum) Kauer Matt Merrifield, Michael Bell, Mary Gleason, Steve Rienecke, and

fishermen in the California Groundfish Collective

The California Groundfish Collective

Fort Bragg GF Association

TNC

Central California Seafood Marketing

Association

Half Moon Bay GF Marketing

Association

Data Package

Rockfish live on rocky habitat Trawling on rocky habitats is bad If you catch rockfish using trawl gear you’re impacting habitat Trawl-caught rockfish = Avoid

1% Percent of trawl effort on gravel, cobble, or boulder

Chilipepper

rockfish Dover sole English Sole

Longspine thornyheads

Sablefish (blackcod) Petrale sole

Sanddabs Shortspine

thornyheads

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Local fishermen and California ports

Pacific Fisheries Management Council Farallon Geographics

Will McClintock NOAA NWFSC/FRAM Division

Sustainable Fisheries Group/UC Santa Barbara CA Department of Fish and Game

Environmental Defense Fund National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and many others

Thank You