Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0209086

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0209086

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Marine Reserves as Fisheries Management Tools: A Long-term, Experimental Approach. Marine reserves, areas permanently closed to fishing, are potentially valuable fisheries management tools. Reserves may sustain fisheries external to them by containing undisturbed breeding stocks and becoming net exporters of adults and propagules. Our studies in the Philippines suggest that such benefits may only eventuate after 5-15 years of effective protection. This project will continue our long-term (17-25 year) studies of abundance and yield at 3 established reserves, and use a replicated experiment at 3 new reserves, to test if reserves can enhance local fish biomass and catch. We will also compare effects of reserves in Australia and the Philippines.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2002

End Date: 12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $75,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Ecosystem Studies And Stock Assessment | Evaluation Of Management Strategies | Fisheries Sciences

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Fisheries—recreational | Marine protected areas | Fisheries—commercial |

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