Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Database

Any derivative use of this database must fully credit the California Sea Grant Extension Program as well as the Remote Sensing Research Unit here at U.C. Santa Barbara as the creator(s).

Briefly, this is a vector database of 100+ protected marine areas along the California coast digitized at a scale of about 1:24,000. At this time, no accuracy assessment has been conducted and it is suspected that some of the source data may have been lacking in quality. For more information about this database, see This MPA link

If you have trouble getting the datasets, mail me and I will see what I can do.