Sustaining small-scale fisheries with periodically harvested marine reserves

Marine Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 278-287

  Cohen, Philippa J ^a   Foale, Simon J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Co management; Conservation; Fisheries management; Marine reserve; Periodic closure; Small scale fisheries

Indexed keywords

CLOSURE; COMANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING INDUSTRY; HARVESTING; MARINE PARK; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84867331391     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

References (97)

1. Russ G. Yet another review of marine reserves as reef fishery management tools. Coral Reef Fishes: Dynamics and Diversity in a Complex Ecosystem 2002, 421-443. Academic Press, Amsterdam. P.F. Sale (Ed.).
2. Lester S.E., Halpern B.S. Biological responses in marine no-take reserves versus partially protected areas. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 2008, 367:49-56.
3. Hilborn R., Stokes K., Maguire J.J., Smith T., Botsford L.W., Mangel M., et al. When can marine reserves improve fisheries management?. Ocean Coast Manage 2004, 47:197-205.
4. Abesamis R.A., Russ G.R. Density-dependent spillover from a marine reserve: long-term evidence. Ecol Appl 2005, 15:1798-1812.
5. McClanahan T.R., Mangi S. Spillover of exploitable fishes from a marine park and its effect on the adjacent fishery. Ecol Appl 2000, 10:1792-1805.
6. Botsford LW, Quinn JF, Wing SR, Brittnacher JG. Rotating spatial harvest of a benthic invertebrate, the Red Sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus franciscanus. In: Kruse G, Eggers DM, Marasco RJ, Pautzke C, Quinn TJ, II, editors. Alaska Sea Grant College Program Report, No 93(2); International symposium on management strategies for exploited fish populations1993. pp. 409-28.
7. Pfister C.A., Bradbury A. Harvesting red sea urchins: Recent effects and future predictions. Ecol Appl 1996, 6:298-310.
8. Hart D.R. Yield- and biomass-per-recruit analysis for rotational fisheries, with an application to the Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus). Fish Bull 2003, 101:44-57.
9. Valderrama D., Anderson J.L. Improving utilization of the Atlantic sea scallop resource: an analysis of rotational management of fishing grounds. Land Econ 2007, 83:86-103.
10. Caddy J.F., Seijo J.C. Application of a spatial model to explore rotating harvest strategies for sedentary species. Can Spec Publ Fish Aquat. Sci 1998, 125:359-365.
11. Sluczanowski P.R. A management-oriented model of an abalone fishery whose substocks are subject to pulse fishing. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 1984, 41:1008-1014.
12. Nash W., Adams T., Tuara P., Terekia O., Munro D., Amos M., et al. The Aitutaki Trochus Fishery: A Case Study 1995, South Pacific Commission, Noumea.
13. Gendron L., Brethes J.C. Simulations of the impact of different temporal and spatial allocations of fishing effort on fishing mortality in a lobster (Homarus americanus) fishery. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 2002, 59:899-909.
14. Caddy J.F. Background concepts for a rotating harvesting strategy with particular reference to the mediterranean red coral, Corallium rubrum. Mar Fish Rev 1993, 5:10-18.
15. De Klerk P., Gatto M. Some remarks on periodic harvesting of a fish population. Math Biosci 1981, 56:47-70.
16. Game E.T., Bode M., McDonald-Madden E., Grantham H.S., Possingham H.P. Dynamic marine protected areas can improve the resilience of coral reef systems. Ecol Lett 2009, 12:1336-1346.
17. Kaplan D.M., Hart D.R., Botsford L.W. Rotating spatial harvests and fishing effort displacement: a comment on Game et al. (2009). Ecol Lett 2010, 13:E10-E12.
18. Myers R.A., Fuller S.D., Kehler D.G. A fisheries management strategy robust to ignorance: rotational harvest in the presence of indirect fishing mortality. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 2000, 57:2357-2362.
19. Jennings S., Reynolds J.D., Polunin N.V.C. Predicting the vulnerability of tropical reef fishes to exploitation with phylogenies and life histories. Conserv Biol 1999, 13:1466-1475.
20. Russ G.R., Alcala A.C. Natural fishing experiments in marine reserves 1983-1993: roles of life history and fishing intensity in family responses. Coral Reefs 1998, 17:399-416.
21. Jennings S. Patterns and prediction of population recovery in marine reserves. Rev Fish Biol Fish 2001, 10:209-231.
22. Russ G.R., Alcala A.C. Marine reserves: Rates and patterns of recovery and decline of predatory fish, 1983-2000. Ecol Appl 2003, 13:1553-1565.
23. Russ G.R., Alcala A.C. Marine reserves: long-term protection is required for full recovery of predatory fish populations. Oecologia 2004, 138:622-627.
24. Russ G.R., Stockwell B., Alcala A.C. Inferring versus measuring rates of recovery in no-take marine reserves. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 2005, 292:1-12.
25. Hilborn R., Micheli F., De Leo G.A. Integrating marine protected areas with catch regulation. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 2006, 63:642-649.
26. Johnson D.S. Category, narrative, and value in the governance of small-scale fisheries. Mar Policy 2006, 30:747-756.
27. Polunin N.V.C., Roberts C.M. Reef Fisheries 1996, Chapman and Hall, London.
28. Johannes R.E. The case for data-less marine resource management: examples from tropical nearshore finfisheries. Trends Ecol Evol 1998, 13(6):243-246.
29. Govan H. Achieving the potential of locally managed marine areas in the South Pacific. SPC Traditional Mar Resour Manage Knowl Inf Bull 2009, 25:16-25.
30. McLeod E., Szuster B., Salm R. Sasi and marine conservation in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Coast Manage 2009, 37:656-676.
31. Harkes I., Novaczek I. Presence, performance, and institutional resilience of sasi, a traditional management institution in Central Maluku, Indonesia. Ocean Coast Manage 2002, 45:237-260.
32. Cinner J.E., Sutton S.G., Bond T.G. Socioeconomic thresholds that affect use of customary fisheries management tools. Conserv Biol 2007, 21:1603-1611.
33. Foale S., Cohen P., Januchowski-Hartley S., Wenger A., Macintyre M. Tenure and taboos: origins and implications for fisheries in the Pacific. Fish Fish 2011, 12:357-369.
34. Johannes R.E. Traditional marine conservation methods in Oceania and their demise. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 1978, 9:349-364.
35. Johannes R.E. Traditional conservation methods and protected marine areas in Oceania. Ambio 1982, 11:258-261.
36. Evans S.M., Gill M.E., Retraubun A.S.W., Abrahamz J., Dangeubun J. Traditional management practices and the conservation of the gastropod (Trochus niloticus) and fish stocks in the Maluku Province (Eastern Indonesia). Fish Res (Amsterdam) 1997, 31:83-91.
37. Cohen P., Foale S. Fishing taboos: securing Pacific fisheries for the future?. SPC Traditional Mar Res Manage Knowl Inf Bull 2011, 28:3-13.
38. Allan C.H. Customary Land Tenure in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate 1957, Western Pacific High Commission, Honiara.
39. Hviding E. Contextual flexibility: present status and future of customary marine tenure in Solomon Islands. Ocean Coast Manage 1998, 40:253-269.
40. Thorburn C.C. Changing customary marine resource management practice and institutions: the case of Sasi Lola in the Kei Islands, Indonesia. World Dev 2000, 28:1461-1479.
41. Ruttan L.M. Closing the commons: cooperation for gain or restraint?. Hum Ecol 1998, 26:43-66.
42. Zerner C. Through a green lens-the construction of customary environmental-law and community in Indonesia Maluku Islands. Law Soc Rev 1994, 28:1079-1122.
43. Carrier J.G. Marine tenure and conservation in Papua New Guinea: problems in interpretation. The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources 1987, 142-167. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. B.J. McCay, J.M. Acheson (Eds.).
44. Polunin N.V.C. Do traditional marine "reserves" conserve? A view of Indonesian and New Guinean evidence. Maritime Institutions in the Western Pacific 1984, 267-283. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka. K. Ruddle, T. Akimichi (Eds.).
45. Johannes R.E. The renaissance of community-based marine resource management in Oceania. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 2002, 33:317-340.
46. Ruddle K. The context of policy design for existing community-based fisheries management systems in the Pacific Islands. Ocean Coast Manage 1998, 40:105-126.
47. Pannell S. Managing the discourse of resource management: the case of Sasi from 'Southeast' Maluku, Indonesia. Oceania 1997, 67:289-307.
48. Alcala A.C., Russ G.R. No-take marine reserves and reef fisheries management in the Philippines: a new people power revolution. Ambio 2006, 35:245-254.
49. Arifin Z., Pradina P., Purnomo A.H. A case study of the traditional trochus (Trochus niloticus) fishery in the Maluku region, Indonesia. Can Spec Publ Fish Aquat Sci 1998, 125:401-406.
50. LMMA. The Locally-Managed Marine Area Network 2010 Annual Report. In: Tan W, Parras T, editors. 2011. p. 32.
51. Johannes R.E. Government-supported, village-based management of marine resources in Vanuatu. Ocean Coast Manage 1998, 40:165-187.
52. Govan H. Status and potential of locally-managed marine areas in the South Pacific: meeting nature conservation and sustainable livelihood targets through wide-spread implementation of LMMAs. Suva2009. p. 95.
53. Foale S.J. Assessment and management of the trochus fishery at West Nggela, Solomon Islands: an interdisciplinary approach. Ocean Coast Manage 1998, 40:187-205.
54. Bartlett C.Y., Pakoa K., Manua C. Marine reserve phenomenon in the Pacific Islands. Mar Policy 2009, 33:673-678.
55. Cinner J., Marnane M.J., McClanahan T.R., Almany G.R. Periodic closures as adaptive coral reef management in the Indo-Pacific. Ecol Soc 2005, 11:31.
56. Williams I.D., Walsh W.J., Miyasaka A., Friedlander A.M. Effects of rotational closure on coral reef fishes in Waikiki-Diamond Head Fishery Management Area, Oahu, Hawaii. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 2006, 310:139-149.
57. Foale S.J., Manele B. Social and political barriers to the use of Marine Protected Areas for conservation and fishery management in Melanesia. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 2004, 45:373-386.
58. Gerber L.R., Botsford L.W., Hastings A., Possingham H.P., Gaines S.D., Palumbi S.R., et al. Population models for marine reserve design: A retrospective and prospective synthesis. Ecol Appl 2003, 13:S47-S64.
59. Foale S.J., Macintyre M. Dynamic and flexible aspects of property tenure at West Nggela, Solomon Islands: implications for marine resource management. Oceania 2000, 71:30-45.
60. Hviding E. Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place and Politics in Maritime Melanesia 1996, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
61. Bartlett C.Y., Manua C., Cinner J., Sutton S., Jimmy R., South R., et al. Comparison of outcomes of permanently closed and periodically harvested coral reef reserves. Conserv Biol 2009, 23:1475-1485.
62. Weiant P., Aswani S. Early effects of a community-based marine protected area on the food security of participating households. SPC Traditional Mar Res Manage Knowl Inf Bull 2006, 19:16-32.
63. Cinner J.E., Marnane M.J., McClanahan T.R. Conservation and community benefits from traditional coral reef management at Ahus Island, Papua New Guinea. Conserv Biol 2005, 19:1714-1723.
64. Feary D.A., Cinner J.E., Graham N.A.J., Januchowski-Hartley F.A. Effects of customary marine closures on fish behavior, spear-fishing success, and underwater visual surveys. Conserv Biol 2011, 25:341-349.
65. Halpern B.S., Warner R.R. Marine reserves have rapid and lasting effects. Ecol Lett 2002, 5:361-366.
66. McClanahan T.R., Graham N.A.J., Calnan J.M., MacNeil M.A. Toward pristine biomass: reef fish recovery in coral reef marine protected areas in Kenya. Ecol Appl 2007, 17:1055-1067.
67. Foale S., Day R. Stock assessment of trochus (Trochus niloticus) (Gastropoda: Trochidae) fisheries at West Nggela, Solomon Islands. Fish Res 1997, 33:1-16.
68. Jennings S., Polunin N.V.C. Comparative size and composition of yield from six Fijian reef fisheries. J Fish Biol 1995, 46:28-46.
69. Cheung W.W.L., Pitcher T.J., Pauly D.A. fuzzy logic expert system to estimate intrinsic extinction vulnerabilities of marine fishes to fishing. Biol Conserv 2005, 124:97-111.
70. Nowlis J.S., Roberts C.M. Fisheries benefits and optimal design of marine reserves. Fish Bull (Washington D C) 1999, 97:604-616.
71. Tawake A., Aalbersberg W.G.L. Community-Based Refugia Management in Fij 2002, Institute of Applied Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the South Pacific, Suva, p. 12.
72. Ferraris J., Pelletier D., Kulbicki M., Chauvet C. Assessing the impact of removing reserve status on the Abore reef fish assemblage in New Caledonia. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 2005, 292:271-286.
73. Roberts C.M., Halpern B., Palumbi S.R., Warner R.R. Designing networks of marine reserves: why small, isolated protected areas are not enough. Conserv BiolPract 2001, 2:10-17.
74. White C., Costello C. Matching spatial property rights fisheries with scales of fish dispersal. Ecol Appl 2011, 21:350-362.
75. Roughgarden J., Gaines S., Possingham H. Recruitment dynamics in complex life cycles. Science 1988, 241:1460-1466.
76. Levitan D.R., Sewell M.A., Chia F.S. How distribution and abundance influence fertilization success in the sea urchin Strongylocentotus franciscanus. Ecology 1992, 73:248-254.
77. Stephens P.A., Sutherland W.J., Freckleton R.P. What is the Allee effect?. Oikos 1999, 87:185-190.
78. Bell J.D., Purcell S.W., Nash W.J. Restoring small-scale fisheries for tropical sea-cucumbers. Ocean Coast Manage 2008, 51:589-593.
79. Ramohia P. Fisheries resources: commercially important macroinvertebrates. Solomon Islands Marine Assessment: Technical Report of the Survey Conducted May 13-June 17, 2004 2006, 530. The Nature Conservancy, Brisbane. A. Green, P. Lokani, W. Atu, P. Ramohia, P. Thomas, J. Almany (Eds.).
80. Hawes I., Lasiak T., Smith M.L., Oengpepa C. The status of silverlip pearl oyster (Jameson) (Mollusca, Pteridae) in the Solomon Islands after a 15-year export ban. J Shellfish Res 2011, 30:255-260.
81. Friedman K., Eriksson H., Tardy E., Pakoa K. Management of sea cucumber stocks: patterns of vulnerability and recovery of sea cucumber stocks impacted by fishing. Fish Fish 2011, 12:75-93.
82. Wilson S.K., Fisher R., Pratchett M.S., Graham N.A.J., Dulvy N.K., Turner R.A., et al. Habitat degradation and fishing effects on the size structure of coral reef fish communities. Ecol Appl 2010, 20:442-451.
83. Wild C., Huettel M., Klueter A., Kremb S.G., Rasheed M.Y.M., Jorgensen B.B. Coral mucus functions as an energy carrier and particle trap in the reef ecosystem. Nature (London) 2004, 428:66-70.
84. Russ G.R., Alcala A.C. Natural fishing experiments in marine reserves 1983-1993: community and trophic responses. Coral Reefs 1998, 17:383-397.
85. Jupiter S.D., Weeks R., Jenkins A.P., Egli D.P., Cakacaka A. Effects of a single intensive harvest event on fish populations inside a customary marine closure. Coral Reefs 2012, 10.1007/s00338-012-0888-x.
86. Hamilton R., Matawai M. Live reef food fish trade causes rapid declines in abundance of squaretail coralgrouper (Plectropomus areolatus) at a spawning aggregation site in Manus, Papua New Guinea. SPC Traditional Mar Res Manage Knowl Inf Bull 2006, 16:13-18.
87. Murawski S.A., Wigley S.E., Fogarty M.J., Rago P.J., Mountain D.G. Effort distribution and catch patterns adjacent to temperate MPAs. ICES J Mar Sci 2005, 62:1150-1167.
88. McClanahan T.R., Mangi S. The effect of a closed area and beach seine exclusion on coral reef fish catches. Fish Manage Ecol 2001, 8:107-121.
89. Leisher C., van Beukering P., Scherl L.M. Nature's Investment Bank: How Marine Protected Areas Contribute to Poverty Reduction 2007, The Nature Conservancy, Brisbane, p. 43.
90. Govan H., Aalbersberg W., Tawake A., Parks J.E. Locally-Managed Marine Areas: a Guide to Supporting Community-Based Adaptive Management 2008, Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network, Suva, p. 64.
91. Kronen M., Vunisea A. Fishing impact and food security-gender differences in finfisheries across Pacific Island countries and cultural groups. SPC Women Fish Inf Bull 2009, 19:3-10.
92. Koczberski G., Curry G., Warku J., Kwam C. Village-based marine resource use and rural livelihoods, Kimbe Bay, west New Britain, Papua New Guinea. TNC Pacific Island Countries Report No 5/06. Brisbane: The Nature Conservancy; 2006. p. 128.
93. Vunisea A. The culture of silence and fisheries management. SPC Women Fish Inf Bull 2008, 18:42-43.
94. Leopold M., Cakacaka A., Meo S., Sikolia J., Lecchini D. Evaluation of the effectiveness of three underwater reef fish monitoring methods in Fiji. Biodivers Conserv 2009, 18:3367-3382.
95. Dulvy N., Polunin N. Using informal knowledge to infer human-induced rarity of a conspicuous reef fish. Anim Conserv 2004, 7:365-374.
96. Roberts C.M., Polunin N.V.C. Marine reserves-simple solutions to managing complex fisheries. Ambio 1993, 22:363-368.
97. McClanahan T.R., Marnane M.J., Cinner J.E., Kiene W.E. A comparison of marine protected areas and alternative approaches to coral-reef management. Current Biology 2006, 16:1408-1413.