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Unpredictable environmental fluctuations are a major problem in fisheries. To mitigate these uncertainties, reserves are advocated to help ensure population persistence, reduce population and harvest variance, provide a ‘hedge’ against management failures and increase resilience. Using recent insights from the modelling of marine reserves, we propose a six-step process for establishing and adaptively managing reserves for fishery purposes.
Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government (APSEG), Australian National University, J.G. Crawford Building (Bldg. 13), Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), Australia
Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government (APSEG), Australian National University, J.G. Crawford Building (Bldg. 13), Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia