Equivalence in Yield from Marine Reserves and Traditional Fisheries Management
- 28 May 1999
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 284 (5419), 1537-1538
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.284.5419.1537
Abstract
Marine reserves have been proposed as a remedy for overfishing and declining marine biodiversity, but concern that reserves would inherently reduce yields has impeded their implementation. It was found that management of fisheries through reserves and management through effort control produce identical yields under a reasonable set of simplifying assumptions corresponding to a broad range of biological conditions. Indeed, for populations with sedentary adults (invertebrates and reef fishes), reserves have important advantages for sustainability, making marine reserves the preferred management approach.Keywords
This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
- Marine Reserves are Necessary but not Sufficient for Marine ConservationEcological Applications, 1998
- Implementing the Precautionary Principle in Fisheries Management Through Marine ReservesEcological Applications, 1998
- Synergistic Predation, Density Dependence, and Population Regulation in Marine FishScience, 1997
- The Management of Fisheries and Marine EcosystemsScience, 1997
- RECRUITMENT AND THE LOCAL DYNAMICS OF OPEN MARINE POPULATIONSAnnual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 1996
- Marine Reserves and the Precautionary Management of FisheriesEcological Applications, 1996
- Harvest Refugia in Marine Invertebrate Fisheries: Models and Applications to the Red Sea Urchin,Strongylocentrotus franciscanusAmerican Zoologist, 1993
- Conceptual Issues Relevant to Marine Harvest Refuges: Examples from Temperate Reef FishesCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 1993
- Recruitment habitats and nursery grounds of the American lobster Homarus americanus: a demographic bottleneck?Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1991
- Modelling Stock–Recruitment Processes in Crustacea: Some Practical and Theoretical PerspectivesCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 1986