Map of the Monterey Bay area.

<p>Map includes the three major ports: Santa Cruz, Moss Landing, and Monterey.</p

Aims of methods used.

<p>Aims of methods used.</p

Timeline of dominance modes and transition points.

<p>Identified drivers most associated with each transition are listed accordingly.</p

Key features of the commercial fisheries that comprise the interconnected Monterey Bay wetfish fisheries system.

<p>*Available permits does not indicate the number of vessels with landings as some permitted vessels may not participate in a given year. The number of market squid permits applies only to round haul (seine) vessels; light boat and brail vessel permits are issued separately.</p><p>Key features of the commercial fisheries that comprise the interconnected Monterey Bay wetfish fisheries system.</p

Dominance mode transition points.

<p>Proportional landings bubble plots showing dominance mode transition points for three of the seven transition years identified by the cluster analysis. Circle size is scaled to relative volume of landings (Data from Table18PUB CDFW). Darkest purple circles are sardine landings, lightest purple are anchovy landings. Gray arrows represent the movement of focus shifting from one fishery to the next.</p

Simpson Diversity Index of landings.

<p>Higher values indicate more evenness (less dominance) among fisheries landings, lower values indicate less evenness (greater dominance of a single fishery), based on pounds landed (CDFW Table 18PUB) at the three study ports combined. Dotted line represents average.</p