Exploring the effect of the spatial scale of fishery management

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2015.11.005MaRDI QIDQ304801zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nao Takashina, Marissa L. Baskett

Publication date 26 August 2016

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02793, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1kp6x116

zbMATH Keywords

marine reservesbioeconomic modelmanagement scale

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Environmental economics (natural resource models, harvesting, pollution, etc.) (91B76) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: For any spatially explicit management, determining the appropriate spatial scale of management decisions is critical to success at achieving a given management goal. Specifically, managers must decide how much to subdivide a given managed region: from implementing a uniform approach across the region to considering a unique approach in each of one hundred patches and everything in between. Spatially explicit approaches, such as the implementation of marine spatial planning and marine reserves, are increasingly used in fishery management. Using a spatially explicit bioeconomic model, we quantify how the management scale affects optimal fishery profit, biomass, fishery effort, and the fraction of habitat in marine reserves. We find that, if habitats are randomly distributed, the fishery profit increases almost linearly with the number of segments. However, if habitats are positively autocorrelated, then the fishery profit increases with diminishing returns. Therefore, the true optimum in management scale given cost to subdivision depends on the habitat distribution pattern.

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