Transcript Improving the basis for MPA planning

INCOFISH WP5
Improving the basis for MPA
planning
WP5 – Improving the basis for MPA planning
Objectives
Improving the basis for MPA planning with emphasis on sizing and
placement of MPAs, and reconciling fishery and biodiversity
objectives.
• D5.1 Review of the similarities and differences of planning,
stakeholder involvement and effectiveness of selected MPAs.
• D5.2 Analysis of size and placement of selected MPAs using
spatial ecosystem models provided by WP4.
• D5.3 Conceptual model for MPA planning in offshore continental
shelf waters.
• D5.4 WP5 report.
• D5.5 Five publications.
WP5 – Improving the basis for MPA planning
D 5.1 Review of MPA Effectiveness
Case Study Regions:
Northern Gulf of California, Campeche Bank - Gulf of Mexico,
East China Sea, North Sea
WP5 – Improving the basis for MPA planning
D 5.1 Review of MPA Effectiveness
• MPAs show great similarities in objectives and application across a
diverse range of marine ecosystems and political settings.
• Limited and sporadic monitoring and assessment critically
compromises the ability to determine MPA effects.
• There is only limited evidence for biodiversity conservation benefits
and no evidence for improved fishery yields from the case studies.
•Socio-political considerations are as important to MPA success as
biophysical considerations.
WP5 – Improving the basis for MPA planning
D 5.2 Analysis of size and placement of selected MPAs
using spatial ecosystem models
Case Study Regions:
Northern Gulf of California, Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico,
East China Sea, North Sea, Benguela – Namibia, Gulf of Thailand
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D 5.2 Analysis of size and placement of selected MPAs
using spatial ecosystem models
• Work just about to commence following the completion of the
Ecosystem models. Ready next week……..
• Simulation of existing and proposed MPAs in each ecosystem
• Comparison of MPAs for biodiversity conservation and fisheries
management.
• Single species population models.
» Sedentary species
» Mobile Species
» Are Bad MPAs any good?
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Outputs
Papers:
Le Quesne, Shepherd & Hawkins (in press) A comparison of no-take zones and
traditional fishery manaagement tools for managing site attached species with a mixed larval pool.
Fish and Fisheries.
Hui, Xu, Jun, Le Quesne, Sweeting & Polunin (final draft) An overview of spatial
management and marine protected areas in the East China Sea. Conservation Biology?
Le Quesne & Codling (draft) The role of no-take zones as a fishery management tool for
mobile dispersing species.
Zetina-Rejón MJ, Arreguín-Sánchez F & Crúz-Escalona VH (draft) An integral trophic
model of two interdependent ecosystems at the southern Gulf of Mexico.
Lercari, D., Arreguín-Sánchez, F. (draft) Deriving viable harvesting strategies from Mass
balance trophic models to contribute to multispecies management in the northern Gulf of California.
Le Quesne (draft) Are bad marine protected areas any good, or just a new way of making
old mistakes?
Reports:
Review of similarities and differences of planning, operation, stakeholder involvement
and effectiveness of selected MPAs. Deliverable 5.1.
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Outputs
Conference Presentations:
International Conference on Coastal Ecosystems: Towards an integrated knowledge
for an ecosystem approach, Campeche, México, 2006.
Zetina-Rejón MJ, Arreguín-Sánchez F, & Crúz-Escalona VH. Towards an integration of the Campeche bank
ecosystem dynamics for ecosystem-based fisheries management.
Le Quesne WJF, Shepherd JG, & Hawkins SJ. The implications to management of the relationship between the
spatial extent of MPAs, and management regime outside of MPAs.
41st European Marine Biology Symposium, Cork, Ireland, 2006
Lercari D & Arreguín-Sánchez F. Temporal and spatial ecosystem scenarios towards conservation and exploitation
conciliation in the northern Gulf of California.
Le Quesne WJF. Using MPAs to control the age groups targeted by a fishery; can yield be increased?
Zetina-Rejón MJ, Arreguín-Sánchez F, & Crúz-Escalona VH. Towards an MPA strategy on the Campeche Bank for
ecosystem-based fisheries management.
European Symposium on Marine Protected Areas as a Tool for Fisheries
Management and Biodiversity Conservation, Murcia, Spain, 2007
At least 6 presentations have been, or will be, submitted by members of WP5.