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Satellite surveillance of fishing vessel activity in the Ascension Island Exclusive Economic Zone and Marine Protected Area

Marine Policy, 2019
Designation of large expanses of the ocean as Marine Protected Area (MPA) is increasingly advocated and realised. The effectiveness of such MPAs, however, requires improvements to vessel monitoring and enforcement capability.
G. Rowlands, Judith Brown, B. Soule, Pablo Trueba Boluda, A. Rogers   +4 more
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Ocean protection quality is lagging behind quantity: Applying a scientific framework to assess real marine protected area progress against the 30 by 30 target

Conservation Letters
The international community set a global conservation target to protect at least 30% of the ocean by 2030 (“30 × 30”) to reverse biodiversity loss, including through marine protected areas (MPAs).
Elizabeth P. Pike, Jessica M. C. MacCarthy, Sarah O. Hameed, Nikki Harasta, Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Jenna Sullivan-Stack, J. Claudet, B. Horta e Costa, Emanuel J. Gonçalves, Angelo O. Villagomez, Lance Morgan   +10 more
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Estimating Space Use of Mobile Fishes in a Large Marine Protected Area With Methodological Considerations in Acoustic Array Design

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have become an increasingly important tool to protect and conserve marine resources. However, there remains much debate about how effective MPAs are, especially in terms of their ability to protect mobile marine species such
A. Carlisle, D. Tickler, J. Dale, F. Ferretti, David J. Curnick, Taylor K. Chapple, R. Schallert, M. Castleton, B. Block   +8 more
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Shark movement strategies influence poaching risk and can guide enforcement decisions in a large, remote marine protected area

Journal of Applied Ecology, 2020
1Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK; 2Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; 3Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA; 4School of Marine Science and Policy,
D. Jacoby, F. Ferretti, R. Freeman, A. Carlisle, Taylor K. Chapple, David J. Curnick, J. Dale, R. Schallert, D. Tickler, B. Block   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spatial genetic structure in the saddled sea bream (Oblada melanura [Linnaeus, 1758]) suggests multi-scaled patterns of connectivity between protected and unprotected areas in the Western Mediterranean Sea [PDF]

, 2016
Marine protected areas (MPAs) and networks of MPAs are advocated worldwide for the achievement of marine conservation objectives. Although the knowledge about population connectivity is considered fundamental for the optimal design of MPAs and networks ...
Calo A., Garcia-Charton J. A., Munoz I., Perez-Ruzafa A., Vergara-Chen C.   +4 more
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Plastic Debris Occurrence, Convergence Areas and Fin Whales Feeding Ground in the Mediterranean Marine Protected Area Pelagos Sanctuary: A Modeling Approach

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017
The Mediterranean Sea is greatly affected by marine litter. In this area, research on the impact of plastic debris (including microplastics) on biota, particularly large filter-feeding species such as the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), is still in ...
M. Fossi, T. Romeo, M. Baini, C. Panti, L. Marsili, T. Campani, S. Canese, F. Galgani, J. Druon, S. Airoldi, Stefano Taddei, Maria Fattorini, C. Brandini, C. Lapucci   +13 more
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Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas [PDF]

Current Biology, 2018
There has been a recent shift in global perception of plastics in the environment, resulting in a call for greater action. Science and the popular media have highlighted plastic as an increasing stressor [1,2]. Efforts have been made to confer protected status to some remote locations, forming some of the world's largest Marine Protected Areas ...
Barnes, David K.A., Morley, Simon A., Bell, J., Brewin, P., Bridgen, K., Collins, M., Glass, T., Goodall-Copestake, Will P., Henry, L., Laptikhovsky, V., Piechaud, N., Richardson, A., Rose, P., Sands, Chester J., Schofield, A., Shreeve, R., Small, A., Stamford, T., Taylor, B.   +18 more
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Area expansion versus effective and equitable management in international marine protected areas goals and targets

Marine Policy, 2019
This paper draws on the published literature on marine protected areas (MPAs) and marine protected areas targets to argue that the MPA target (14.5) will dominate in the pursuit, measurement, and evaluation of the much broader ‘oceans’ Sustainable ...
L. Campbell, Noella J. Gray
semanticscholar   +1 more source

First offshore island record of Mauremys annamensis (Siebenrock, 1903) (Testudines, Geoemydidae) in Vietnam [PDF]

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We report the first record of the Critically Endangered Vietnamese Pond Turtle, Mauremys annamensis (Siebenrock, 1903), from the Cu Lao Cham Archipelago, Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam, based on two individuals observed in 2015 and
Luan Thanh Nguyen, Tuyet-Dzung Thi Tran, Sanh Cong Phan, Thomas Ziegler, Minh Le, Timothy E. M. McCormack   +5 more
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The Pitcairn Islands The world's Largest Fully Protected Marine Reserve [PDF]

, 2015
In March 2015, the United Kingdom declared the world's largest fully protected marine reserve in the remote waters surrounding the Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The designation marks the first time any government has combined creation of a

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