Returns from matching management resolution to ecological variation in a coral reef fishery.

ABSTRACT: When managing heterogeneous socioecological systems, decision-makers must choose a spatial resolution at which to define management policies. Complex spatial policies allow managers to better reflect underlying ecological and economic heterogeneity, but incur higher compliance and enforcement costs. To choose the most appropriate management resolution, we need to characterize the relationship between management resolution and performance. We parameterize a model of the commercial coral trout fishery in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, which is currently managed by a single, spatially homogeneous management policy. We use this model to estimate how the spatial resolution of management policies affect the amount of revenue generated, and assess whether a more spatially complex policy can b

SUBMITTER: Bode M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4810854 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature