Journal
ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 959-971Publisher
ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1890/12-0447.1
Keywords
bioeconomics; destructive fishing practices; fisheries; habitat damage; marine protected areas; marine reserves; optimal control; optimal harvesting; spatial management
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [DMS-0532378, OCE-1031256]
- Thomas B. Wheeler Award for Ocean Science and Society
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) [USA 00002]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [1031256] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The biological benefits of marine reserves have garnered favor in the conservation community, but no-take reserve implementation is complicated by the economic interests of fishery stakeholders. There are now a number of studies examining the conditions under which marine reserves can provide both economic and ecological benefits. A potentially important reality of fishing that these studies overlook is that fishing can damage the habitat of the target stock. Here, we construct an equilibrium bioeconomic model that incorporates this habitat damage and show that the designation of marine reserves, coupled with the implementation of a tax on fishing effort, becomes both biologically and economically favorable as habitat sensitivity increases. We also study the effects of varied degrees of spatial control on fisheries management. Together, our results provide further evidence for the potential monetary and biological value of spatial management, and the possibility of a mutually beneficial resolution to the fisherman-conservationist marine reserve designation dilemma.
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