FisheriesManagement

Fisheries Management

General Info

    1. What is a fishery?
    2. What are the types?
    3. Why are they important?
    4. What are the current management techniques 
          a. MPAs 
          b. Marine Reserves 

Tragedy Stories

     1. Nassau Grouper  
           a. Almost extinct commercially
           b. Reproduce in mass spawning aggregations 
           c. Endangered in 2003  
      2. Jamaica (phase shift from coral reef to algae cover) 
           a. Overfishing of predators caused a growth of herbivores (Parrotfish) 
           b. Fishing turned to the herbivores  
           c. Urchins become key in controlling algal growth  
           d. Phase shift from coral reef to algae cover 

Success Stories

      1. Florida: 
           a. History of Merritt Island Refuge
           b. Marine reserves effect on adjacent fisheries. 
      2. St Lucia
           a.  History of Soufrière Marine Management Area
           b. Marine reserves effect on adjacent fisheries. 

References

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/294/5548/1920.full

http://www.fishwatch.gov/wild_seafood/what_is_a_fishery.htm

http://aquaticcommons.org/12765/1/gcfi_45-1.pdf

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2884556?seq=1

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2008.00308.x/full

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982206017015

http://www.pcouncil.org/habitat-and-communities/marine-protected-areas/

http://vb3lk7eb4t.search.serialssolutions.com/?sid=Elsevier:Scopus&genre=article&issn=01718630&volume=384&issue=&spage=33&epage=46&pages=33-46&artnum=&date=2009&title=Marine+Ecology+Progress+Series&atitle=Biological+effects+within+no-take+marine+reserves%3a+A+global+synthesis&aufirst=S.E.&auinit=S.E.&auinit1=S&aulast=Lester&id=doi:10.3354%2fmeps08029

http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/LessonsLearned1804%20-%20FINAL.pdf

http://eaton.math.rpi.edu/csums/papers/Ecostability/hughesparadigms.pdf

http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/611/chp%253A10.1007%252F978-94-007-0114-4_29.pdf?auth66=1393029040_28e14cc2eb944c074783151623da1d65&ext=.pdf

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/277/5325/509.full