scholarly journals Marine protected areas management in the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas: making them more than paper parks

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (S2) ◽  
pp. 153-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgina Bustamante ◽  
Purificación Canals ◽  
Giuseppe Di Carlo ◽  
Marina Gomei ◽  
Marie Romani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Protected Areas Management ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals Holistic investigation of shore angler profiles to support marine protected areas management

2021 ◽  
Vol 285 ◽  
pp. 112089
Author(s):  
Eléonore Cambra ◽  
Alice Bello ◽  
Mohsen Kayal ◽  
Philippe Lenfant ◽  
Lauriane Vasseur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Protected Areas Management

Current Status of Marine Protected Areas in Latin America and the Caribbean

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1630-1640 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. PAULINA GUARDERAS ◽  
SALLY D. HACKER ◽  
JANE LUBCHENCO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Current Status ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals The Caribbean needs big marine protected areas

Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 367 (6479) ◽  
pp. 749.1-749
Author(s):  
Austin J. Gallagher ◽  
Diva J. Amon ◽  
Tadzio Bervoets ◽  
Oliver N. Shipley ◽  
Neil Hammerschlag ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
The Caribbean

Temporal dynamic of reef benthic communities in two marine protected areas in the Caribbean

2017 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Susana Perera-Valderrama ◽  
Héctor Hernández-Arana ◽  
Miguel-Ángel Ruiz-Zárate ◽  
Pedro M. Alcolado ◽  
Hansel Caballero-Aragón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Benthic Communities ◽  
Temporal Dynamic ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals An MPA Design Approach to Benefit Fisheries: Maximising Larval Export and Minimising Redundancy

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 586
Author(s):  
Colm Tong ◽  
Karlo Hock ◽  
Nils C. Krueck ◽  
Vladimir Tyazhelnikov ◽  
Peter J. Mumby
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Larval Dispersal ◽  
Simple Approach ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Dynamic Algorithm ◽  
Larval Connectivity ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
The Caribbean

In the design of marine protected areas (MPAs), tailoring reserve placement to facilitate larval export beyond reserve boundaries may support fished populations and fisheries through recruitment subsidies. Intuitively, capturing such connectivity could be purely based on optimising larval dispersal metrics such as export strength. However, this can lead to inefficient or redundant larval connectivity, as the subset of sites with the best connectivity metrics might share many of the same connections, making them, collectively, poor MPA candidates to provide recruitment subsidies to unprotected sites. We propose a simple, dynamic algorithm for reserve placement optimisation designed to select MPAs sequentially, maximising larval export to the overall network, whilst accounting for redundancy in supply from multiple sources. When applied to four regions in the Caribbean, the algorithm consistently outperformed approaches that did not consider supply redundancy, leading to, on average, 20% greater fished biomass in a simulated model. Improvements were most apparent in dense, strongly connected systems such as the Bahamas. Here, MPA placement without redundancy considerations produced fishery benefits worse than random MPA design. Our findings highlight the importance of considering redundancy in MPA design, and offer a novel, simple approach to improving MPA design for achieving fishery objectives.

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