Marine reserves are areas of the sea where fishing is not allowed. They provide refuges
where populations of exploited species can recover and habitats modified by fishing can …

Management areas are used in marine spatial planning to conserve biodiversity of marine
ecosystems and to protect fish from fishing pressure. To evaluate the effectiveness of these …

Marine reserves are quickly gaining popularity as a management option for marine
conservation, fisheries, and other human uses of the oceans. Despite the popularity of …

We studied the coral-reef fish communities of Saba Manne Park (Netherlands Antilles) and
Hol Chan Marine Reserve (Ambergns Caye, Belize) in the Canbbean to assess differences …

The role of a marine protected area in enhancing local fisheries, through the emigration or
spillover of exploitable fishes, was studied in a coral reef park (Mombasa Marine Park …

Fisheries for demersal reef fishes in tropical and warm-temperate regions are typically
multispecific and the fish are harvested using a wide variety of methods (Munro and …

Potential fishery benefits of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are widely acknowledged, yet
seldom demonstrated, as fishery data series that straddle MPA establishment are seldom …

Coral Reef Fishes is the successor of The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs. This new
edition includes provocative reviews covering the major areas of reef fish ecology. Concerns …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been proposed as one way to reduce the problems of
overfishing and to respond to uncertainty in fisheries management. Many fisheries, including …

The reef biota in four Tasmanian marine reserves and at associated unprotected reference
sites was investigated over a 6-year period following protection from fishing. The largest …