Using Adaptive and Fisheries Management to Increase MPA Success: A Case Study of the Gilbert Bay MPA [graduate project].

• Main Author: MacDonald, Teresa
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Gilbert Bay; MPA; Atlantic cod; Fishery management; Adaptive Management; Marine parks and reserves; atlantic cod
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/72706

The Gilbert Bay Marine Protected Area (MPA) was established in 2005 with the purpose of conserving the genetically discrete Gilbert Bay cod subpopulation. However, following the implementation of the MPA the cod subpopulation has continued to decline. Tagging studies revealed that adult Gilbert Bay...