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

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

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.

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

Degradation of marine ecosystems and decline of fishery resources in marine protected areas in the US Virgin Islands

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 312-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline S. Rogers ◽  
Jim Beets
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Us Virgin Islands ◽  
Fishery Resources ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Intensive Fishing

The large number of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Caribbean (over 100) gives a misleading impression of the amount of protection the reefs and other marine resources in this region are receiving. This review synthesizes information on marine resources in two of the first MPAs established in the USA, namely Virgin Islands National Park (1962) and Buck Island Reef National Monument (1961), and provides compelling evidence that greater protection is needed, based on data from some of the longest running research projects on coral reefs, reef fish assemblages, and seagrass beds for the Caribbean. Most of the stresses affecting marine resources throughout the Caribbean (e.g. damage from boats, hurricanes and coral diseases) are also causing deterioration in these MPAs. Living coral cover has decreased and macroalgal cover has increased. Seagrass densities have decreased because of storms and anchor damage. Intensive fishing in the US Virgin Islands has caused loss of spawning aggregations and decreases in mean fish size and abundance. Groupers and snappers are far less abundant and herbivorous fishes comprise a greater proportion of samples than in the 1960s. Effects of intensive fishing are evident even within MPA boundaries. Although only traditional fishing with traps of ‘conventional design’ is allowed, commercial trap fishing is occurring. Visual samples of fishes inside and outside Virgin Islands National Park showed no significant differences in number of species, biomass, or mean size of fishes. Similarly, the number of fishes per trap was statistically similar inside and outside park waters. These MPAs have not been effective because an unprecedented combination of natural and human factors is assaulting the resources, some of the greatest damage is from stresses outside the control of park managers (e.g. hurricanes), and enforcement of the few regulations has been limited. Fully functioning MPAs which prohibit fishing and other extractive uses (e.g. no-take marine reserves) could reverse some of the degradation, allowing replenishment of the fishery resources and recovery of benthic habitats.

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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