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The largest fully protected marine area in North America does not harm industrial fishing
Marine protected areas (MPAs) that ban fishing restore marine life within their boundaries and can also replenish nearby fisheries. However, some argue that after large MPAs are established, fishing effort is displaced to unprotected areas and economic loss is incurred by the fishing industry. We te...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231865/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37256961 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg0709 |
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author | Favoretto, Fabio López-Sagástegui, Catalina Sala, Enric Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio |
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description | Marine protected areas (MPAs) that ban fishing restore marine life within their boundaries and can also replenish nearby fisheries. However, some argue that after large MPAs are established, fishing effort is displaced to unprotected areas and economic loss is incurred by the fishing industry. We tested these assumptions by assessing the behavior and productivity of the Mexican industrial fishing fleet before and after the implementation of the largest fully protected MPA in North America (the 147,000–square kilometer Revillagigedo National Park). We found no decrease in catches and no causal link between the variation of the spatial footprint of the industrial fleet and the implementation of the MPA. Our findings add to growing evidence that well-designed MPAs benefit marine ecosystems and, in the long term, can also benefit the fisheries they support. |
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spelling | pubmed-102318652023-06-01 The largest fully protected marine area in North America does not harm industrial fishing Favoretto, Fabio López-Sagástegui, Catalina Sala, Enric Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio Sci Adv Earth, Environmental, Ecological, and Space Sciences Marine protected areas (MPAs) that ban fishing restore marine life within their boundaries and can also replenish nearby fisheries. However, some argue that after large MPAs are established, fishing effort is displaced to unprotected areas and economic loss is incurred by the fishing industry. We tested these assumptions by assessing the behavior and productivity of the Mexican industrial fishing fleet before and after the implementation of the largest fully protected MPA in North America (the 147,000–square kilometer Revillagigedo National Park). We found no decrease in catches and no causal link between the variation of the spatial footprint of the industrial fleet and the implementation of the MPA. Our findings add to growing evidence that well-designed MPAs benefit marine ecosystems and, in the long term, can also benefit the fisheries they support. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10231865/ /pubmed/37256961 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg0709 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Earth, Environmental, Ecological, and Space Sciences Favoretto, Fabio López-Sagástegui, Catalina Sala, Enric Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio The largest fully protected marine area in North America does not harm industrial fishing |
title | The largest fully protected marine area in North America does not harm industrial fishing |
title_full | The largest fully protected marine area in North America does not harm industrial fishing |
title_fullStr | The largest fully protected marine area in North America does not harm industrial fishing |
title_full_unstemmed | The largest fully protected marine area in North America does not harm industrial fishing |
title_short | The largest fully protected marine area in North America does not harm industrial fishing |
title_sort | largest fully protected marine area in north america does not harm industrial fishing |
topic | Earth, Environmental, Ecological, and Space Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231865/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37256961 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg0709 |
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