Estimating the value of tropical coastal wetland habitats to fisheries: Caveats and assumptions.

ABSTRACT: Habitat valuation can provide an objective basis for the prioritisation of conservation and restoration actions. The attribution of fisheries production to particular habitat units is an important measure of value, but is difficult to estimate. Using the case study of habitat use by juvenile banana prawns in a tropical estuary, we assessed the potential to produce valid value estimates at two spatio-conceptual scales: estuary reach and whole estuary. Additionally, we also explore the potential to produce meaningful value estimates at the scale of whole estuary contribution to the offshore fisheries stock. A diversity of potential and actual sources of error and logical problems means that quantification at any scale is at best of uncertain validity and produces estimates that are likely to

SUBMITTER: Abrantes KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6469798 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature