2010
DOI: 10.1080/09669580903071987
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The Shark Reef Marine Reserve: a marine tourism project in Fiji involving local communities

Abstract: The Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji is an ecotourism project designed to protect a small reef patch and its fauna while preserving the livelihood of local communities. It involves the local communities by using a participatory business planning approach to Marine Protected Area management, generating income through diver user fees, distributed to the local villages that have exchanged their traditional fishing rights in the marine reserve for this new source of income. The Shark Reef Marine Reserve is a self… Show more

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“…The SRMR, to the best of our knowledge, is unique because since 2003, the reef patch on the southern coast of Viti Levu is visited 3-4 times per week by a single dive operator who hand feeds sharks, and a detailed database comprising presence-absence data for various fishes and oceanographic parameters is maintained (Brunnschweiler, 2010). For a detailed description of the study area and the dive protocol as well as species composition and relative abundances of sharks at this provisioning site, see Brunnschweiler &Baensch (2011) andBrunnschweiler, Abrantes &Barnett (2014).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The SRMR, to the best of our knowledge, is unique because since 2003, the reef patch on the southern coast of Viti Levu is visited 3-4 times per week by a single dive operator who hand feeds sharks, and a detailed database comprising presence-absence data for various fishes and oceanographic parameters is maintained (Brunnschweiler, 2010). For a detailed description of the study area and the dive protocol as well as species composition and relative abundances of sharks at this provisioning site, see Brunnschweiler &Baensch (2011) andBrunnschweiler, Abrantes &Barnett (2014).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For a detailed description of the study area and the dive protocol as well as species composition and relative abundances of sharks at this provisioning site, see Brunnschweiler &Baensch (2011) andBrunnschweiler, Abrantes &Barnett (2014). Briefly, a Fijian feeder who has been feeding sharks in Beqa Lagoon for more than 10 years, hand feeds bull sharks with tuna heads (Thunnus alalunga and Thunnus obesus) out of a stationary metal bin at 16 m (Fig.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, there is still some uncertainty around the exact functional role reef sharks play in structuring reef communities, which is due to the complex nature of ecosystem dynamics and unknown exploitation histories (Roff et al 2016). For many coastal and island nations in the tropics, sharks are also a valuable tourism resource that support industries that provide significant benefits to regional economies (Brunnschweiler 2010;Gallagher and Hammerschlag 2011;Huveneers et al 2017;Vianna et al 2012). …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Traditional forms of marine tenure have been successfully applied in Pacific islands to establish conservation initiatives such as marine protected areas (for example Russ & Alcala 1999;Aswani & Aswani et al 2007;Christie & White 2007;Brunnschweiler 2010). Together with traditional marine tenure, traditional knowledge and customary law form the three pillars of what is referred to as traditional resource management, which is increasingly recognized as a key tool for sustainable management of natural resources in certain areas such as parts of the South Pacific (Caillaud et al 2004;Cinner & Aswani 2007).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%