Best management strategies for sustainable giant clam fishery in French Polynesia islands: answers from a spatial modeling approach.

ABSTRACT: The giant clam Tridacna maxima has been largely overexploited in many tropical regions over the past decades, and was therefore listed in appendix II of the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in 1985. In French Polynesia, several atolls and islands harbor the world's highest stocks of giant clams in very shallow and accessible areas, which are therefore highly vulnerable to fishing pressure. The local fishery authority (i.e., Direction des Resources Marines or "DRM") implemented several management schemes in 2002 to control and regulate fishing pressure. However, for further decisions DRM was missing a sensitivity analysis on the effectiveness of the possible management actions. Here, we report on the use of a deterministic Viable Population Analysis (VPA) and

SUBMITTER: Van Wynsberge S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3665777 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature