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LAST WORDS
This project has been tough going. The rockfish topic was actually my plan B. My original idea had been categorizing landuse surfaces and wetlands to create a migratory bird corridor in the olympic pennsyla. However, data would not co-operate and I was not able to get all the projection right. I am glad of scraping that idea and starting over. I think this topic is simple but relevent (I also have intense "culinary interests" in rockfish). Studies I have come across all say the same thing. Marine reserves are all good. They not only protect fish stocks, territorial fish species like rockfish actually will "spill over" to adjacent areas due to satuartion of habitat. Fishries benefit from it as result. Given that the first ever and the only so far marine reserve from Canada is a deep sea hydrovents 300 miles offshore, we still have a long way to go. The reason why that area gets the status first is because nobody can get to it anyway. We need to speed up this process for nearshore habitats, before it is too late. For some reason I alway come back to topics that's related to fish. I already have ideas on further improving this model in the up-coming 455 class. Time will tell.
Lots of help has gone into this project. Thanks to gangs at GIS lab: nick, kyra, lindsay, kevin, mike, lars and also guy from giving me pointers on anisotropic surfaces.