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Marine Reserves - Simple Solutions to Managing Complex Fisheries

Based on: Roberts C.M. & Polunin N.V.C. (1993)

A comparison of cod life-history parameters inside and outside of four year-round groundfish closed areas in New England, USA

Based on: Sherwood G.D. & Grabowski J.H. (2016)

Using fishery-dependent data to inform the development and operation of a co-management initiative to reduce cod mortality and cut discards

Based on: Holmes S.J., Bailey N., Campbell N., Catarino R., Barratt K., Gibb A. & Fernandes P.G. (2011)

Supplementing electronic tagging with conventional tagging to redesign fishery closed areas

Based on: Le Bris A., Fréchet A. & Wroblewski J.S. (2013)

Changes in the spear fishery of herbivores associated with closed grouper season in Palau, Micronesia

Based on: Bejarano Chavarro S., Mumby P.J. & Golbuu Y. (2014)

Evaluating the effectiveness of a seasonal spawning area closure

Based on: Clarke J., Bailey D.M. & Wright P.J. (2015)

Effects of seasonal closures in a multi-specific fishery

Based on: Samy-Kamal M., Forcada A. & Lizaso J.L.S. (2015)

Are marine protected areas useful for the recovery of the Mediterranean mussel populations?

Based on: Rius M. & Zabala M. (2008)

Changes to fish assemblages visiting estuarine wetlands following the closure of commercial fishing in Botany Bay, Australia

Based on: Saintilan N., Mazumder D. & Cranney K. (2008)

Using tagging experiments to evaluate the potential of closed areas in protecting migratory Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

Based on: Schopka S.A., Solmundsson J., Ragnarsson S.A. & Thorsteinsson V. (2010)

Comparing fish communities in sanctuaries, partly protected areas and open-access reefs in South-East Africa

Based on: Currie J., Sink K., Le Noury P. & Branch G. (2012)

Assessing coral reef fish population and community changes in response to marine reserves in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, USA

Based on: Ault J.S., Smith S.G., Bohnsack J.A., Luo J., Zurcher N., McClellan D.B., Ziegler T.A., Hallac D.E., Patterson M., Feeley M.W., Ruttenberg B.I., Hunt J., Kimball D. & Causey B. (2013)

Tracking the changes of a fish community following a megascale reclamation and ensuing mitigation measures

Based on: Tam Y., Ni I., Yau C., Yan M., Chan W., Chan S. & Lu H. (2013)

First survey of fishes in the Betty's Bay Marine Protected Area along South Africa's temperate south-west coast

Based on: Roberson L., Winker H., Attwood C., De V.L., Sanguinetti C. & Götz A. (2015)

Size and age are important factors for marine sanctuaries: evidence from a decade of systematic sampling in a subtropical marine park

Based on: Malcolm H.A., Jordán A., Creese R.G. & Knott N.A. (2016)

Changes in spawning-stock structure and recruitment pattern of red mullet, Mullus barbatus, after a trawl ban in the Gulf of Castellammare (central Mediterranean Sea)

Based on: Fiorentino F., Badalamenti F., D’Anna G., Garofalo G., Gianguzza P., Gristina M., Pipitone C., Rizzo P. & Fortibuoni T. (2008)

An evaluation of the Emerald/Western Bank juvenile haddock closed area

Based on: Frank K.T., Shackell N.L. & Simon J.E. (2000)

Effects of Fisheries Closures and Gear Restrictions on Fishing Income in a Kenyan Coral Reef

Based on: McClanahan T.R. (2010)

A comparison of fish bycatch communities between areas open and closed to prawn trawling in an Australian tropical fishery

Based on: Stobutzki I., Jones P. & Miller M. (2003)

Steeper biomass spectra of demersal fish communities after trawler exclusion in Sicily

Based on: Sweeting C.J., Badalamenti F., D'Anna G., Pipitone C. & Polunin N.V.C. (2009)

Habitat use and the effect of shrimp trawling on fish and invertebrate communities over the northern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf

Based on: Wells R.J.D., Cowan J.H.J. & Patterson W.F.I. (2008)

Gradients of abundance of sea breams across the boundaries of a Mediterranean marine protected area

Based on: La Mesa G., Molinari A., Bava S., Finoia M.G., Cattaneo-Vietti R. & Tunesi L. (2011)

Reef fish display station-keeping and ranging behaviour in the Pondoland Marine Protected Area on the east coast of South Africa

Based on: Maggs J., Mann B. & Cowley P. (2013)

Movement patterns of surf-zone fish species in a subtropical marine protected area on the east coast of South Africa

Based on: Mann B., Cowley P. & Fennessy S. (2015)

Variation in population structure and life-history parameters of steentjies Spondyliosoma emarginatum: effects of exploitation and biogeography

Based on: Tunley K.L., Attwood C.G., Moloney C.L. & Fairhurst L. (2009)