Monitoring data for a new large offshore marine protected area reveals infeasible management objectives
Corey J. Morris,
Khanh Q. Nguyen,
Bárbara de Moura Neves
et al.
Abstract:Predicting and measuring changes resulting from marine protected areas (MPAs) has posed a challenge for practitioners, partly because ecosystems are complex and can change in unanticipated ways, but also due to MPA characteristics such as design factors, conservation objectives (COs), and monitoring programs, that can leave little chance of meeting stated goals. We consider these design factors for the Laurentian Channel MPA, a large offshore Canadian protected area established to protect against fishing impac… Show more
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