- Title
- A change of the seaward boundary of Goukamma Marine Protected Area could increase conservation and fishery benefits
- Creator
- Götz, Albrecht, Kerwath, S E, Attwood, Colin G
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:7147
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011846
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.4102/sajs.v105i9/10.102
- Description
- Goukamma Marine Protected Area (MPA) on the South African temperate South Coast has been shown to be effective in maintaining a spawning stock of roman, Chrysoblephus laticeps (Sparidae). The larval ecology and the oceanographic conditions in the area suggest a good potential for the enhancement of roman stocks outside the reserve through larval dispersal. A high rate of illegal fishing just inside the seaward boundary of the MPA could severely compromise its function.We suggest that a change of the seaward boundary of the reserve to coincide with a latitudinal line could increase its function as a harvest refuge for resident reef fishes such as roman, facilitate voluntary compliance and monitoring and prosecution of illegal fishing without a significant negative impact on the commercial linefishing fleet in the area. Simple adjustments such as the one proposed here could be attempted at a number of South African MPAs as they would be beneficial to achieve fishery and conservation goals alike.
- Format
- 2 p, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Gotz, A. and Kerwath, S.E. and Attwood, C.G. and Warwick, W.H.H. (2009) A change of the seaward boundary of Goukamma Marine Protected Area could increase conservation and fishery benefits. South African Journal of Science, 105 (9/10). pp. 330-331.
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