date:Jul 20, 2012
increase fishery profits relative to an optimal non-spatial management in which the amount of fishing is regulated, but not its spatial distribution.
Strategically placed MPAs, they found, can also increase profits substantially compared with non-spatial management strategies; however, profit increases available through optimal use of MPAs only are roughly half those to be realised from fully optimized spatial management using a suite of management tools in addition to MPAs.
Further, MPAs mu