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We present an accessible, spatial method of calculating the extent of natural resource extraction based on two simple measures that are available, or at least easily estimable, in even the most data poor scenarios: the number of production units (apparatus used in the resource extraction) and the local human population. We illustrate the method using a fisheries case study from the Gulf of California, Mexico. In terms of marine fisheries, methods to estimate extent that currently exist are built around electronic tracking and logbook systems and generally focus on industrial fisheries. The spatial extent for small-scale fisheries therefore often remains elusive. This simple method can easily be used across a range of different systems where the extent of natural resource extraction needs to be estimated. Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp) Moreno-Baez, Marcia; Johnson, Andrew; Giron-Nava, Alfredo; Corominas, Julia; Erisman, Brad; Ezcurra, Exequiel; Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio (2017). Potential Fishing Effort in the Gulf of California. In dataMares: Fisheries. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0V40SC1 The data available for download here is not the latest version. Please see the latest version of this data at "Predicted Fishing Effort in the Gulf of California" (https://doi.org/10.6075/J0RV0KX1). Contact information: Santiago Dominguez-Sanchez, santiago@gocmarineprogram.org; Catalina Lopez-Sagastegui, catalina@ucr.edu
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