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Callum M. Roberts,12*James A. Bohnsack,3Fiona Gell,2Julie P. Hawkins,2Renata Goodridge4
Marine reserves have been widely promoted as
conservation and fishery management tools. There are robust
demonstrations ofconservation benefits, but fishery benefits remain
controversial.We show that marine reserves in Florida (United States)
and St.Lucia have enhanced adjacent fisheries. Within 5 years of
creation,a network of five small reserves in St. Lucia increased
adjacentcatches of artisanal fishers by between 46 and 90%, dependingon the type of gear the fishers used. In Florida, reserve zonesin the
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge have supplied increasingnumbers of world record-sized fish to adjacent recreational
fisheriessince the 1970s. Our study confirms theoretical predictions
thatmarine reserves can play a key role in supporting fisheries.
1 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary
Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
2 Environment Department, University of York,
York, YO10 5DD, UK.
3 Southeast Fisheries Science
Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, FL 33149, USA.
4 Department of Marine Resource and Environmental
Management, Faculty of Natural Science, University of the West Indies,
Cave Hill, Barbados.
*
To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
cr10{at}york.ac.uk
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