Setting expected timelines of fished population recovery for the adaptive management of a marine protected area network.

ABSTRACT: Adaptive management of marine protected areas (MPAs) requires developing methods to evaluate whether monitoring data indicate that they are performing as expected. Modeling the expected responses of targeted species to an MPA network, with a clear timeline for those expectations, can aid in the development of a monitoring program that efficiently evaluates expectations over appropriate time frames. Here, we describe the expected trajectories in abundance and biomass following MPA implementation for populations of 19 nearshore fishery species in California. To capture the process of filling in the age structure truncated by fishing, we used age-structured population models with stochastic larval recruitment to predict responses to MPA implementation. We implemented both demographically open

SUBMITTER: Kaplan KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285580 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature