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Marine Protected Areas debate: Implications for the proposed Phakisa Marine Protected Areas Network
South African Journal of Science, 2016 South Africa recently had the privilege of hosting prominent fisheries scientist Professor Ray Hilborn from Washington University who stimulated lively discussion on global stock status, food production, impacts of trawling on the seabed, fisheries management and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Professor Hilborn gave a seminar billed as 'Fisheries Myths'
Kerry Sink
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The oceans and seas under Australian jurisdiction include the full range of ocean temperature zones, from tropical to polar, ranging from the spectacular coral reefs of the tropical north to the majestic kelp forests of the temperate south.
Colin A. Hughes
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 The Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) initiative was launched by the Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in 2016, as a response to a conservation crisis in the protection of marine ...
Michael J. Tetley +16 more
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, 2019 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a key tool in ecosystem-based management, implementing a spatial approach to biodiversity conservation in the oceans. While the use of protected areas to conserve and/or protect resources has a long history, including centuries of royal hunting areas and traditionally managed areas, the modern conceptualization of ...
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Two common strategies organisms use to finance reproduction are capital breeding (using energy stored prior to reproduction) and income breeding (using energy gathered during the reproductive period). Understanding which of these two strategies a species
Jade Carver +3 more
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Self-financed marine protected areas
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an important tool for conservation but can be victims of their own success—higher fish biomass within MPAs create incentives to poach.
Katherine D Millage +5 more
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A meta‐analysis examining how fish biodiversity varies with marine protected area size and age
Ecosphere, 2023 Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a well‐established conservation practice worldwide, but their effectiveness in protecting or replenishing fish biodiversity remains uneven.
Helene A. L. Hollitzer +2 more
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Healing the wounds of marine mammals by protecting their habitat
Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 2020 Important marine mammal areas (IMMAs)—‘discrete habitat areas, important for one or more marine mammal species, that have the potential to be delineated and managed for conservation’ (IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force 2018, p.
G Notarbartolo di Sciara, E Hoyt
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Marine Protected Areas should be managed with greater integration
California Agriculture, 1997 Like their counterparts on land, protected areas in U.S. coastal waters are numerous and complex. California alone has 104 marine protected areas (MPAs). MPAs carry a variety of names.
Deborah McArdle
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Analysis of Factors Affecting Fishermen Participation in Marine Protected Area East Java
Jurnal Pembangunan dan Alam Lestari, 2021 The main failure of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in achieving its objectives is the lack of involvement of users (communities) and stakeholders in the planning and decision-making processes, with unforeseen social consequences.
Reny Tiarantika, Anthon Efani
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