The Science of No-Take Fishery Reserves: A Guide for Managers

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<title>Climbing the Water Ladder</title><style>  </style>There is an urgency to improve our scientific understanding concerning No-take Reserves. Our relative, lack of scientific information on such matters as the correct size, spacing or placement of No-take Reserves limits our ability to predict the effects that a proposed No-take Reserve will have on surrounding fisheries or on biodiversity conservation.<br /> <p class="MsoNormal"> This reduces the manager’s capacity to be explicit about outcomes when talking to stakeholders about existing or proposed reserves. Management that makes only vague promises, or that which promises more than can be delivered is seldom supported by stakeholder groups. There is no doubt that No-take Reserves are a valuable conservation and fishery management tool. We need to use this tool, while also continuing to develop a clearer understanding of how to use it more effectively. Fortunately, managers and scientists working together can build the new scientific understanding that we all need. Full paper in PDF format; Number of pages: 12p</p>

http://www.inweh.unu.edu/Coastal/NoTakeFisheriesGuide.pdf

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