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Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries

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Title Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries
 
Creator Smallhorn-West, Patrick
Cohen, Philippa
Morais, Renato
Januchowski-Hartley, F.
Ceccarelli, Daniela
Malimali, Siola'a
Stone, Karen
Warren, Regon
Cinner, Joshua
 
Subject conservation
Fish
impact evaluation
community-based marine management
local management
marine protected area
traditional ecological knowledge
 
Description Partially protected areas are now the dominant global form of spatial management aimed at preserving ecosystem integrity and managing human use. However, most evaluations of their efficacy use only a narrow set of conservation indicators that reflect a fraction of ways in which protection can succeed or fail. In this paper, we examine three case studies of partially protected coral reef fishery systems to evaluate benefits and risks of their use as a management tool. We use data from community-based management arrangements in three Pacific Island countries to demonstrate three vignettes of how partial protection can boost fisheries production, enhance the ease with which fishers catch their prey, and alter the composition of fisheries yields. These changes in fisheries productivity, catchability, and vulnerability under partial protection carry substantial benefits for fishers. However, they also carry significant risks for ecosystems and fisheries livelihoods unless adaptively managed so as to confer the short to medium term benefits in resource performance without risking longer term sustainability.
 
Date 2022-03-01
2023-01-21T13:13:12Z
2023-01-21T13:13:12Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Smallhorn-West, P. F. P. J. Cohen, R. A. Morais, F. A. Januchowski-Hartley, D. Ceccarelli, S. Malimali, K. Stone, R. Warren, and J. E. Cinner. 2022. Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries. Ecology and Society 27(1): 26. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13112-270126
1708-3087
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127758
https://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-13112-270126
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Resilience Alliance
 
Source Ecology and Society