The spatial, multi-species nature of coral reef fisheries makes them notoriously difficult to manage. We
have developed a simulation modeling approach to examine the effect of management options on the
recreationally important tourist destination of Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia where a recreational
fishery targets Spangled Emperor (Lethrinus nebulosus). The...
The paper gives a brief summary of Indonesia's Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP) targets and progress as of midterm of this 18 year (1998 - 2015), three Phase program. The total program cost is USD 250 million. The paper highlights COREMAP's approach to the conservation and management of...
Management changes in the coral reef fin fish fishery of the Great Barrier
Reef provide a natural experiment of the efficacy of combining no-take
areas and dedicated catch shares. A spatially-explicit bio-economic model
of the fishery is used to analyze the tradeoffs between biomass and the net
returns from fishing...
Since the 1990s, moored Fishing Aggregating Devices (FADs) have had a
sharp success in the Lesser Antilles and beyond, because they make it
possible for small nondecked fishing units to reach, at low costs, offshore
resources which they could do only seasonally or resources normally
accessible by large scale vessels...
For the past decades, around 20% of the natural coral reefs were lost and > 20% more is currently deteriorating. Due to the recognition of positive impact to fishery resources enhancement by artificial
reefs (ARs) deployment, Taiwanese government has started deploying ARs as a measure to improve the environment of...
Rights-based systems for controlling the use of marine resources developed in many "traditional" societies of the world--notably
in the isolated island societies of the Pacific. These "customary marine tenure" systems (CMT) have eroded or collapsed
in many societies since the development of economic and other links with outside societies and...
If the role of MPAs as a conservation tool is now widely demonstrated
even with some variability, their effects on fishery yields, tourism revenues
and social aspects are only confirmed by very few studies. More than 550
MPA now exist in the South Pacific mostly community based managedand
the expectations...
Patterns of settlement of larvae and population dynamics
of juveniles are poorly known for coral reef fishes. During
1987 to 1989, I studied these phenomena in the domino
damselfish (Dascyllus albisella), a species endemic to the
Hawaiian Islands. Larvae settle onto branching coral heads
as new recruits (10-15 mm in...
Greater awareness of the importance of ecosystem services and ecosystem management has sparked
interest in examining on-the-water location choices of fishermen; however, some studies still rely on selfreporting
due to high costs or governmental restrictions to obtaining GPS and satellite information. Selfreported
data may be inaccurate due to spatial comprehension...
Understanding the processes that influence the composition of animal communities is a central goal in ecology. Interactions between established residents and colonizing juveniles that affect the subsequent survival of juveniles may influence community composition. In a series of experiments on coral reef fish communities in the Bahamas and Australia, I...