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Ocean zoning within a sparing versus sharing framework
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McGowan, J and Bode, M and Holden, MH and Davis, K and Krueck, NC and Beger, M and Yates, KL and Possingham, HP, Ocean zoning within a sparing versus sharing framework, Theoretical Ecology, 11 pp. 245-254. ISSN 1874-1738 (2018) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/s12080-017-0364-x
Abstract
The land-sparing versus land-sharing debate centers around how different intensities of habitat use can be coordinated to satisfy
competing demands for biodiversity persistence and food production in agricultural landscapes. We apply the broad concepts
from this debate to the sea and propose it as a framework to informmarine zoning based on three possible management strategies,
establishing: no-take marine reserves, regulated fishing zones, and unregulated open-access areas. We develop a general model
that maximizes standing fish biomass, given a fixed management budget while maintaining a minimum harvest level. We find
that when management budgets are small, sea-sparing is the optimal management strategy because for all parameters tested,
reserves are more cost-effective at increasing standing biomass than traditional fisheries management. For larger budgets, the
optimal strategy switches to sea-sharing because, at a certain point, further investing to grow the no-take marine reserves reduces
catch below the minimum harvest constraint. Our intention is to illustrate how general rules of thumb derived from plausible,
single-purpose models can help guide marine protected area policy under our novel sparing and sharing framework. This work is
the beginning of a basic theory for optimal zoning allocations and should be considered complementary to the more specific
spatial planning literature for marine reserve as nations expand their marine protected area estates.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | sparing vs sharing, marine protected areas, fisheries management, marine zoning, open-access fisheries, marine policy |
| Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
| Research Group: | Environmental management |
| Research Field: | Conservation and biodiversity |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
| Objective Group: | Coastal and estuarine systems and management |
| Objective Field: | Coastal or estuarine biodiversity |
| UTAS Author: | Krueck, NC (Dr Nils Krueck) |
| ID Code: | 142919 |
| Year Published: | 2018 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 8 |
| Deposited By: | Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration |
| Deposited On: | 2021-02-16 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-04-19 |
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