Impacts of partial marine protected areas on coastal fish communities exploited by recreational angling

2013 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 88-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep Alós ◽  
Robert Arlinghaus
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Fish Communities ◽  
Coastal Fish ◽  
Recreational Angling

scholarly journals Dispersal Patterns of Coastal Fish: Implications for Designing Networks of Marine Protected Areas

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. e31681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Di Franco ◽  
Bronwyn M. Gillanders ◽  
Giuseppe De Benedetto ◽  
Antonio Pennetta ◽  
Giulio A. De Leo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Dispersal Patterns ◽  
Coastal Fish

Seychelles' marine protected areas: Comparative structure and status of reef fish communities

1996 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Jennings ◽  
Suzanne S. Marshall ◽  
Nicholas V.C. Polunin
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Fish Communities ◽  
Comparative Structure

scholarly journals Long-term participation in collaborative fisheries research improves angler opinions on marine protected areas

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e10146
Author(s):  
Erica T. Mason ◽  
Allison N. Kellum ◽  
Jennifer A. Chiu ◽  
Grant T. Waltz ◽  
Samantha Murray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Fisheries Resources ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Recreational Angling ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Impact

Recent marine spatial planning efforts, including the management and monitoring of marine protected areas (MPAs), increasingly focus on the importance of stakeholder engagement. For nearly 15 years, the California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program (CCFRP) has partnered volunteer anglers with researchers, the fishing industry, and resource managers to monitor groundfishes in California’s network of MPAs. While the program has succeeded in generating sustained biological observations, we know little about volunteer angler demography or the impact of participation on their perceptions and opinions on fisheries data or MPAs. In this study we surveyed CCFRP volunteers to learn about (a) volunteer angler demographics and attitudes toward groundfish management and stock health, (b) volunteer angler motivations for joining and staying in the program, and (c) whether participation in the program influenced volunteer angler opinions on the quality of fisheries data used in resource management and the establishment of MPAs in California. CCFRP volunteers were older and had higher fishing avidity than average within the California recreational angling community. Many self-identified as more conservation-minded than their peers in the recreational fishing community and had positive views of California groundfish management and stock health. Participation in science and giving back to fisheries resources were major motivating factors in their decision to become and remain CCFRP volunteers. Angler opinions toward MPAs were more positive after volunteering with CCFRP. Those who had volunteered for seven or more years with CCFRP were more likely than not to gain a positive opinion of MPAs. Our survey results provide evidence that long-term engagement of stakeholders in collaborative research positively influences stakeholder opinions regarding marine resource management, and highlights CCFRP’s success in engaging citizen science stakeholders in collaborative fisheries research.

scholarly journals Hydroacoustics as a tool to examine the effects of Marine Protected Areas and habitat type on marine fish communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Egerton ◽  
A. F. Johnson ◽  
J. Turner ◽  
L. LeVay ◽  
I. Mascareñas-Osorio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Fish ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Habitat Type ◽  
Fish Communities

Is catch-and-release recreational angling compatible with no-take marine protected areas?

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 342-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. Cooke ◽  
Andy J. Danylchuk ◽  
Sascha E. Danylchuk ◽  
Cory D. Suski ◽  
Tony L. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Catch And Release ◽  
Recreational Angling

scholarly journals Spearfishing promotes a timidity syndrome and increases the safe operating distances in fish

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Sbragaglia ◽  
Lorenzo Morroni ◽  
Lorenzo Bramanti ◽  
Boris Weitzmann ◽  
Robert Arlinghaus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Behavioral Effects ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Landscape Of Fear ◽  
Coastal Fish ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Individual Size ◽  
Safe Operating

ABSTRACTIn a landscape of fear, humans are altering key behaviors expressed by wild-living animals, including those related to foraging, reproduction and survival. When exposed to potentially lethal human actions, such as hunting or fishing, fish and wildlife is expected to behaviorally respond by becoming more timid, but proving such responses underwater in the wild has been challenging. Using a rich dataset collected in situ, we provide evidence of spearfishing-induced behavioral effects in five coastal fish species using the flight initiation distance (FID) as a proxy of predator avoidance and boldness. We document that spearfishing promotes a timidity syndrome (i.e., an increase of the average timidity of harvested populations) and that the wariness of prey’s wariness is influenced by individual size, level of protection offered through marine protected areas and the ability to recognize the risk posed by underwater human predators. In particular, we show that changes in the appearance of the observer (spearfisher vs. snorkeler) modulate the risk perception among the exploited species, and these differences are more evident outside marine protected areas where spearfishing is allowed. We also detected a positive correlation between FID and fish size, with larger specimens (that are more likely targets of spearfishers) revealing larger FID. The behavioral effects were most clearly expressed in the most heavily exploited species and declined towards the less desired and less targeted ones, which may be a result of learning mechanisms and plasticity and/or fisheries-induced evolution of timidity. Our study reveals a trade-off where intensive spearfishing negatively affects future spearfishing success through behavior-based alteration of catchability. Either rotating harvest or implementation of mosaics of protected and exploited areas might be needed to manage spearfishing-induced timidity in exploited stocks.

scholarly journals Exploring the effect of Marine Protected Areas on the dynamics of fish communities in the southern Benguela: an individual-based modelling approach

2008 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawit Yemane ◽  
Yunne-Jai Shin ◽  
John G. Field
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Fish Communities ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Relative Increase ◽  
Predatory Fish ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Small Pelagic Fish ◽  
Multispecies Model ◽  
Modelling Approach

Abstract Yemane, D., Shin, Y-J., and Field, J. G. 2009. Exploring the effect of Marine Protected Areas on the dynamics of fish communities in the southern Benguela: an individual-based modelling approach. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 378–387. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been suggested as a tool that can achieve some of the goals of an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF), e.g. prevention of overexploitation, biodiversity conservation, recovery of overexploited population, but the consequences of their establishment on the dynamics of protected components are often unclear. Spatial and multispecies models can be used to investigate the effects of their introduction. An individual-based, spatially explicit, size-structured, multispecies model (known as OSMOSE) is used to investigate the likely consequences of the introduction of three MPAs off the coast of South Africa, individually or in combination. The simultaneous introduction of the MPAs affected varying proportions of the distribution of the modelled species (5–17%) and 12% of the distribution of the whole community. In general, the introduction of the MPAs in the different scenarios resulted in a relative increase in the biomass of large predatory fish and a decrease in the biomass of small pelagic fish. The simulation demonstrates that consideration of trophic interactions is necessary when introducing MPAs, with indirect effects that may be detrimental to some (mainly smaller prey) species.

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