Fishers' behaviour in response to the implementation of a Marine Protected Area.

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been widely proposed as a fisheries management tool in addition to their conservation purposes. Despite this, few studies have satisfactorily assessed the dynamics of fishers' adaptations to the loss of fishing grounds. Here we used data from before, during an...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bárbara Horta e Costa, Marisa I Batista, Leonel Gonçalves, Karim Erzini, Jennifer E Caselle, Henrique N Cabral, Emanuel J Gonçalves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3670923?pdf=render