Marine reserves: the best strategy for maximizing reproductive biomass in a heavily targeted reef fish

Recruitment overfishing (the reduction of a spawning stock past a point at which the stock can no longer replenish itself) is a common problem which can lead to a rapid and irreversible fishery collapse. Averting this disaster requires maintaining a sufficient spawning population to buffer stochasti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Taylor, B., McIlwain, Jennifer, Kerr, A.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19074