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. 2024 Aug 20;121(34):e2412543121.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2412543121. Epub 2024 Aug 12.

Fully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries

Mark John Costello  1   2
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Fully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries

Mark John Costello. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
A diagram of the trajectory of fishing effort from initial stages of increasing effort as a fishery develops to a point (circled) where either (a) effort increases to maintain catch, indicating overfishing, or (b) the establishment of fully protected MPA acting as permanent spatial closures or other fishery regulations that limit effort and lead to a sustained fishery catch.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
The cumulative increase in the number of partly (dashed line) and fully (solid line) protected MPA. Data from the World Database on Protected Areas (17). These data overestimate actual protection (7).
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