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Improving fisheries co-management through ecosystem-based spatial management: The Galapagos Marine Reserve

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  • Castrejón, Mauricio
  • Charles, Anthony

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Ecosystem-based spatial management (EBSM) can provide a mechanism for a strategic and integrated plan-based approach to managing human activities in the marine environment. An EBSM approach was adopted in the Galapagos Marine Reserve (GMR) at the end of the 1990s with the adoption of marine zoning. The latter was created under a co-management regime to reduce conflicts among users arising over incompatible demands for ocean space, to mitigate the impact of human activities on sensitive ecological areas, and to contribute to the sustainability of Galapagos fisheries. Unfortunately, the promise of an EBSM approach in the GMR has not been matched by effectiveness in practice, in achieving the established management objectives. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the shortcomings and lessons learned related to planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and adaptation of the GMR's marine zoning scheme, and to provide recommendations to better realize the potential value of the EBSM approach to co-managing the shellfisheries of the GMR.

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  • Castrejón, Mauricio & Charles, Anthony, 2013. "Improving fisheries co-management through ecosystem-based spatial management: The Galapagos Marine Reserve," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 235-245.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:marpol:v:38:y:2013:i:c:p:235-245
    DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2012.05.040
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    1. José F. Pontón-Cevallos & Stijn Bruneel & José R. Marín Jarrín & Jorge Ramírez-González & Jorge R. Bermúdez-Monsalve & Peter L. M. Goethals, 2020. "Vulnerability and Decision-Making in Multispecies Fisheries: A Risk Assessment of Bacalao ( Mycteroperca olfax ) and Related Species in the Galapagos’ Handline Fishery," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-24, August.
    2. Veronica Relano & Maria Lourdes Deng Palomares & Daniel Pauly, 2021. "Comparing the Performance of Four Very Large Marine Protected Areas with Different Levels of Protection," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(17), pages 1-18, August.
    3. V. Re & J. Rizzi & C. Tuci & C. Tringali & M. Mancin & E. Mendieta & A. Marcomini, 2023. "Challenges and opportunities of water quality monitoring and multi-stakeholder management in small islands: the case of Santa Cruz, Galápagos (Ecuador)," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 25(5), pages 3867-3891, May.
    4. Mauricio Castrejón & Anthony Charles, 2020. "Human and climatic drivers affect spatial fishing patterns in a multiple-use marine protected area: The Galapagos Marine Reserve," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(1), pages 1-32, January.
    5. Bucaram, Santiago J. & Hearn, Alex, 2014. "Factors that influence the entry–exit decision and intensity of participation of fishing fleet for the Galapagos lobster fishery," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 80-88.

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