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OPEN ACCESS AND MISSING MARKETS IN ARTISANAL FISHING [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper combines a model of open access fisheries exploitation with a distance-based approach to missing labor and product markets. The model generates predictions about the circumstances under which exploitation increases or decreases with distance ...
Kramer, Randall A.   +2 more
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An analytical approach to explore prospects and limits of nutrition-sensitive fisheries governance under climate change

open access: yesEnvironmental Research: Food Systems
Researchers and policymakers increasingly recognize the contribution of aquatic food systems, such as fisheries, to food security and nutrition. Yet governing fisheries for nutrition objectives is complicated by the multiple overlapping processes that ...
Abigail Bennett   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Illegal recreational fishing causes a decline in a fishery targeted species (Snapper: Chrysophrys auratus) within a remote no-take marine protected area.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
One role of Marine Protected Areas is to protect biodiversity; however, illegal fishing activity can reduce the effectiveness of protection. Quantifying illegal fishing effort within no-take MPAs is difficult and the impacts of illegal fishing on ...
David Harasti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Florida's Coastal and Ocean Future: An Updated Blueprint for Economic and Environmental Leadership [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Florida's coastal and marine habitats and numerous ecological and economic resources provide invaluable assetsto the millions of people who live in Florida or visit the state each year. The coast is Florida's economic engine.

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A review of the ecological effectiveness of subtidal marine reserves in Central California, Part I: Synopsis of scientific investigations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Marine reserves, often referred to as no-take MPAs, are defined as areas within which human activities that can result in the removal or alteration of biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem are prohibited or greatly restricted (NRC 2001 ...
Carr, Mark H.   +7 more
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Aquaculture, fisheries, poverty and food security [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Fisheries and aquaculture play important roles in providing food and income in many developing countries, either as a stand-alone activity or in association with crop agriculture and livestock rearing.
Allison, E.H.
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The influence of multiple stressors on the spatial distribution of corals

open access: yesPeople and Nature
Coral reef ecosystems are widely threatened by global change, yet the cumulative impacts of multiple interacting stressors remain difficult to quantify over space and time.
Jennifer Coyle Selgrath   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fisheries’ Economic Impacts from the Rezoning of the Multi-Use Moreton Bay Marine Park

open access: yesFishes
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been implemented globally to protect marine habitats and enhance biodiversity, often displacing commercial and recreational fishing activities previously occurring in the area.
Sean Pascoe   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A systematic review of fishing impacts on the trophic level of fish populations and assemblages in the Mediterranean Sea

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
Fishing activities alter food web diversity and functioning. Trophic level (TL) has been used as an indicator to assess such impacts on populations and assemblages.
Audrey Marguin   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fisheries and Aquaculture and Their Potential Roles in Development: An Assessment of the Current Evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Commissioned by the International Sustainability Unity, this report investigates a number of innovative solutions that have been developed to deal with five key challenges that are impeding progress in achieving sustainable fisheries: overcapacity ...
Carl Harris   +6 more
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