Reposted by Sean R. Connolly
Our results suggested that the fishing community was overfishing their reef fish stocks and stocks were below biomass levels that maximize production, making the overall reef fishery unsustainable. Ahus is one of my long-term study sites (been working there since 2002). Photo credit: me
Reposted by Sean R. Connolly
Hot new #OpenAccess paper by ECR superstar @jzamborainmason.bsky.social on Downscaling global reference points to assess the sustainability of local fisheries. We downscaled a global model to examine whether Ahus Island's fishery is sustainable.
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Downscaling global reference points to assess the sustainability of local fisheries
Multispecies coral reef fisheries are typically managed by local communities who often lack research and monitoring capacity, which prevents estimation of well-defined sustainable reference points to...
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