Marine Reserves as Reef Fisheries Management Tools

Having your Fish and Eating Them Too
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-35657-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Earthscan Oceans

This book showcases how marine reserves, when implemented and protected effectively, could simultaneously achieve conservation and reef fishery goals.

Marine reserves, permanent spatial closures to fishing, are often viewed as detrimental to fisheries, reducing the area available for fishing and concentrating effort into smaller areas. But what if these reserves could supplement reef fisheries? Drawing on over forty years of research and teaching experience, the author explores the concept of net export—where reserves produce such abundant fish biomass that they spill over into fished areas, partly compensating for the loss of fishing grounds. The book delves into recent advancements in larval tagging and tracking, showcasing studies from the Great Barrier Reef, Papua New Guinea, and beyond, to demonstrate how recruitment subsidy, net export of fish larvae from reserves to fished areas, combined with reductions in fishery effort outside reserves when reserves are implemented, can lead to sustainable reef fisheries alongside conservation. The book argues that with the right balance between conservation and catch, marine reserves can achieve a “win-win” scenario, ensuring both healthy fish populations and sustainable reef fisheries. This book calls for conservation and fisheries to co-ordinate, not confront, in order to simultaneously achieve their objectives.

Written in clear and accessible language, this book is essential reading for marine conservation and fisheries professionals and policymakers, as well as students and scholars of marine science and conservation.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Russ, Garry R.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Marine Geologie, Ozeanographie (Meereskunde)
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Tierhaltung Fischerei, Fischzucht, Aquakultur
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeresbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

'1. Introduction. 2. Marine Reserves as Reef Fisheries Management Tools: Expectations. 3. Modelling Effects of Marine Reserves on Fisheries Catch. 4. Recovery of Target Species. 5. Spillover. 6. Recruitment Subsidy. 7. Getting the Best Balance Between Catch and Conservation Objectives.

Über Autor(innen)

Garry R. Russ is an Emeritus Professor at James Cook University, Australia, where he taught fisheries science for 37 years. Working for over four decades in this field, he helped pioneer research on marine reserves as fisheries management tools.