Marine Reserve Targets to Sustain and Rebuild Unregulated Fisheries.

ABSTRACT: Overfishing threatens the sustainability of coastal marine biodiversity, especially in tropical developing countries. To counter this problem, about 200 governments worldwide have committed to protecting 10%-20% of national coastal marine areas. However, associated impacts on fisheries productivity are unclear and could weaken the food security of hundreds of millions of people who depend on diverse and largely unregulated fishing activities. Here, we present a systematic theoretic analysis of the ability of reserves to rebuild fisheries under such complex conditions, and we identify maximum reserve coverages for biodiversity conservation that do not impair long-term fisheries productivity. Our analysis assumes that fishers have no viable alternative to fishing, such that total fishing eff

SUBMITTER: Krueck NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5215937 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature