WWF Cover photo - Soufriere Marine Management Association ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

• The SMMA would have been improved if the initial consultation had involved a wider cross-section of thefishing community. Fishers are a diverse group with a variety of needs and agendas.• Rangers recruited from the local fishing community can be very effective.• After five years of ups and downs, wider support from reef fishers was gained, and is growing.Thanks to Kai Wulf of the SMMA and Sarah George and other staff at Department of Fisheries, St LuciaReferencesGell, F.R., Roberts, C. M., Hubert, P., Hawkins, J.P., Goodridge, R., Oxenford, H.A., Joseph, W. and George,S.N. (in prep. a) The rate and trajectory of recovery of fisheries adjacent to marine reserves.Gell, F.R., Roberts, C. M., Hawkins, J. P., Goodridge, R. and. Oxenford, H. A. (in prep. b) The effects of marinereserves on reef fish populations and catch composition.George, S. (1996) A review of the creation, implementation and initial operation of the Soufrière MarineManagement Area. Department of Fisheries, Saint Lucia.Goodridge, R., Oxenford, H.A., Hatcher, B.G. and Narcisse, F. (1997) Changes in the shallow reef fisheryassociated with the implementation of a system of fishing priority and marine reserve areas in Soufriere, StLucia. Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute 49, 316-339.Hubert, P. (2001) A study of the Soufrière fisheries 1995-2000. Department of Fisheries, Saint Lucia.Roberts, C.M. and Hawkins, J.P. (2000) Fully-protected marine reserves: a guide. WWF Endangered SeasCampaign, 1250 24 th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA and Environment Department, University ofYork, York YO10 5DD, UK.Roberts, C.M, Bohnsack, J.A., Gell, F.R., Hawkins, J.P. and Goodridge, R. (2001) Effects of marine reserves onadjacent fisheries. Science 294, 1920-1923.Smith, A.H. (1994) Community involvement in coral reef monitoring for management in the insular Caribbean.In A.T. White, L.Z. Hale, Y. Renard and L. Cortesi eds, Collaborative and community-based management ofcorals reefs: Lessons from experience. Kumarian Press, Connecticut.80
13. Gulf of Castellammare trawl ban, SicilyCo-authored by Carlo Pipitone, CNR-IRMA Laborotorio di Biologia Marina, Castellammare, Italypipitone@irma.pa.cnr.itIn 1990 the Sicilian Regional Government implemented a year-round trawl ban over an area of 200km 2 in the400km 2 Gulf of Castellammare in northwest Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. The closure comprises 55.5% ofthe whole Gulf and its purpose was to rebuild fished stocks in the area and to address the conflict existingbetween the 15 or so commercial trawling vessels and the 150 artisanal vessels using fixed gears. There was alsoconflict between the artisanal fleet and the recreational fleet, and the future of artisanal fishing in the Gulf was indoubt. The fishing ban only applied to towed bottom gear. Artisanal and recreational fishing using other methodswere still permitted in the area. Based on experimental trawl surveys and landings data, before the ban wasimplemented the resources were probably overexploited. The trawl closure is enforced by coastguards, butpoaching has become more common in recent years, especially when the weather is bad and there are less likelyto be police patrols (Pipitone et al. 2000b, 2001b).To assess the effects of this closure, Pipitone et al. (2000a) conducted trawl surveys one year and three yearsbefore the ban (1987 and 1989) and 4 years after the implementation of the ban (1994). They used experimentalfishing, in the form of 30 minute trawls. Catch per unit effort (CPUE) measures for 11 commercial target specieswere analysed from 21 spring hauls before the trawl ban (1987-89) and 30 spring hauls after the trawl ban in1994. Hauls were made in three depths: 10-50m, 51-100m and 101-200m. Seven out of the eleven speciesincreased significantly over the time the ban was in place. Angler fishes (Lophius budegassa and L. piscatorius)increased by nearly 11-fold from 0.29 kg per 30 minute haul to 3.15 (P
Page 1 and 2:
The fishery effects ofmarine reserv
Page 3 and 4:
ContentsPart 1: Review1. Summary 62
Page 5 and 6:
Part 1: Review5
Page 7 and 8:
egan being published. Those studies
Page 9 and 10:
unprotected area (21.2cm vs 38.1cm)
Page 11 and 12:
species of snappers and grouper are
Page 13 and 14:
6.1 What are the mechanisms involve
Page 15:
They concluded that reserves coveri
Page 18 and 19:
which there are decadal shifts in e
Page 20 and 21:
managed with reserves alone, while
Page 22 and 23:
However, in some areas fishers have
Page 24 and 25:
Literature citedAlder, J. (1996) Co
Page 26 and 27:
Fiske, S.J. (1992) Sociocultural as
Page 28 and 29:
Levine, A. (2002) Global partnershi
Page 30 and 31: Roberts, C.M. and Hawkins, J.P. (20
Page 32 and 33: Part 2: Case Studies32
Page 34 and 35: Mean abundance of fish per count100
Page 36 and 37: 2. Contrasting experiences from the
Page 38 and 39: Russ and Alcala (1996) assessed cha
Page 40 and 41: Key points• Very high reef fisher
Page 42 and 43: 3. The effects of New Zealand marin
Page 44 and 45: important species for recreational
Page 46 and 47: Ballantine, W.J. (1991) Marine rese
Page 48 and 49: experimental data obtained in the T
Page 50 and 51: ReferencesAttwood, C.G. and Bennett
Page 52 and 53: 5. Lobster fisheries management in
Page 54 and 55: Rowe, S. and Feltham, G. (2000) Eas
Page 56 and 57: fishers. At a meeting of fishers an
Page 58 and 59: 7. Marine parks and other protected
Page 60 and 61: 8. Community-based closed areas in
Page 62 and 63: People are also seeing some species
Page 64 and 65: 9. The Sambos Ecological Reserve, F
Page 66 and 67: 10. The Nosy Atafana Marine Park, n
Page 68 and 69: 11. Mombasa and Kisite Marine Parks
Page 70 and 71: species that are mobile enough to d
Page 72 and 73: Emerton and Tessema (2001) looked a
Page 74 and 75: McClanahan, T.R. and Mangi, S. (200
Page 76 and 77: Goodridge et al. (1997) collected b
Page 78 and 79: offshore fishing with tourism, such
Page 82 and 83: species decreased in the second fou
Page 84 and 85: eserve in the form of increased cat
Page 86 and 87: 15. Merritt Island National Wildlif
Page 88 and 89: Thousand Islands, St Lucie canal an
Page 90: is closed to scallop fishing. Ten y
show all

WWF Cover photo - Soufriere Marine Management Association ...

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?