Conservation and fisheries effects of spawning aggregation marine protected areas: What we know, where we should go, and what we need to get there

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1515-1534

  Grüss, Arnaud ^a,b,c   Robinson, Jan ^d,e   Heppell, Selina S ^f   Heppell, Scott A ^f   Semmens, Brice X ^g  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d Victoria   (Seychelles)

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Design implications; Fisheries management; Knowledge gaps; Marine conservation; Marine protected areas (MPAs); Modelling; Monitoring; Reef fish spawning aggregations (FSAs); Transient spawning aggregations

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DESIGN METHOD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MORTALITY; PROTECTED AREA; PROTOGYNY; SPAWNING;

EID: 84920702379     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsu038     Document Type: Review

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