scholarly journals Corrigendum to: Conservation Criminology: Modelling Offender Target Selection for Illegal Fishing in Marine Protected Areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 1011-1011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian P Weekers ◽  
Renee Zahnow ◽  
Lorraine Mazerolle
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Target Selection ◽  
Illegal Fishing ◽  
Selection For

Conservation Criminology: Modelling Offender Target Selection for Illegal Fishing in Marine Protected Areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 1455-1477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian P Weekers ◽  
Renee Zahnow ◽  
Lorraine Mazerolle
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Target Selection ◽  
Environmental Criminology ◽  
Wildlife Crime ◽  
The Past ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
Regional Population ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe emergence of conservation criminology over the past decade provides a unique insight into patterns of wildlife crime. Wildlife crime has a dramatic impact on many vulnerable species and represents a significant challenge to the management of protected areas around the world. This paper contributes to the field of conservation criminology by examining the travel patterns of fishing poachers in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia. The results demonstrate that distance is a key feature of offender target selection, reflecting the established environmental criminology concept of distance decay. The analysis also reveals a significant relationship between individual no-take zones and regional population areas. The applicability of a nodal-oriented approach to wildlife crime prevention is discussed.

scholarly journals Optimizing enforcement and compliance in offshore marine protected areas: a case study from Cocos Island, Costa Rica

Oryx ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Arias ◽  
Robert L. Pressey ◽  
Rhondda E. Jones ◽  
Jorge G. Álvarez-Romero ◽  
Joshua E. Cinner
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Illegal Fishing ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Cocos Island

AbstractIllegal exploitation of resources is a cause of environmental degradation worldwide. The effectiveness of conservation initiatives such as marine protected areas relies on users' compliance with regulations. Although compliance can be motivated by social norms (e.g. peer pressure and legitimacy), some enforcement is commonly necessary. Enforcement is expensive, particularly in areas far from land, but costs can be reduced by optimizing enforcement. We present a case study of how enforcement could be optimized at Cocos Island National Park, Costa Rica, an offshore protected area and World Heritage Site. By analysing patrol records we determined the spatial and temporal distribution of illegal fishing and its relationship to patrol effort. Illegal fishing was concentrated on a seamount within the Park and peaked during the third year-quarter, probably as a result of oceanographic conditions. The lunar cycle in conjunction with the time of year significantly influenced the occurrence of incursions. The predictability of illegal fishing in space and time facilitates the optimization of patrol effort. Repeat offenders are common in the Park and we suggest that unenforced regulations and weak governance are partly to blame. We provide recommendations for efficient distribution of patrol effort in space and time, establishing adequate governance and policy, and designing marine protected areas to improve compliance. Our methods and recommendations are applicable to other protected areas and managed natural resources.

Characterising essential breeding habitat for whales informs the development of large-scale Marine Protected Areas in the South Pacific

2016 ◽  
Vol 548 ◽  
pp. 263-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
RE Lindsay ◽  
R Constantine ◽  
J Robbins ◽  
DK Mattila ◽  
A Tagarino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Breeding Habitat ◽  
The South
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