A Dive Tourism Haven in Palau

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-158
Author(s):  
Justin Alger
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Dive Tourism ◽  
Business Influence

This chapter examines the Palauan government’s creation of the 500,000 km2 Palau National Marine Sanctuary. Palau’s critical dependence on its ecotourism sector—54% of GDP in 2015—meant that business interests and conservation objectives were largely aligned in Palau. At the same time, profits from commercial fishing in Palau’s waters went primarily to foreign-based fleets. The legislation for the sanctuary not only protected biodiversity, but was an effort to restructure the country’s commercial fishing industry to better benefit Palauans. Whereas most prior large marine protected area campaigns had been initiated by environmental groups, this one was initiated by Palauan President Tommy Remengesau Jr. This chapter demonstrates that, given a favorable political economy, business influence can sometimes lead to better protections.

R (on the application of Bancoult No 3) v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (U.K. Sup. Ct.)

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-707
Author(s):  
Stephen Allen
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Legal Issue ◽  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Chagos Archipelago ◽  
The U.S

On February 8, 2018, the U.K. Supreme Court delivered its judgment in R (Bancoult No 3) v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. The case concerned a challenge to the validity of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) extending 250,000 square miles around the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT or Chagos Archipelago). Declared in 2010, the MPA was justified on the ground of environmental protection and resulted in a ban on all commercial fishing in this zone. The appellant alleged that the MPA had been established for an improper purpose—to prevent the Chagos Islanders from resettling the Archipelago. He claimed that this was evidenced by a diplomatic cable sent from the U.S. embassy in London. It recorded a 2009 meeting in which U.S. and British officials discussed the reasons behind the MPA. The cable was subsequently leaked via the WikiLeaks website and published in two national newspapers. Accordingly, as Lady Hale rightly observed, “[t]he crucial legal issue in this case is therefore the admissibility of the cable.”

scholarly journals Bioeconomic model for a three-zone Marine Protected Area: a case study of Medes Islands (northwest Mediterranean)

2008 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gorka Merino ◽  
Francesc Maynou ◽  
Jean Boncoeur
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Species Conservation ◽  
Fishing Effort ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Size Distributions ◽  
Bioeconomic Model ◽  
Northwestern Mediterranean

Abstract Merino, G., Maynou, F., and Boncoeur, J. 2009. Bioeconomic model for a three-zone Marine Protected Area: a case study of Medes Islands (northwest Mediterranean). – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 147–154. The bioeconomic effects of establishing a three-zone Marine Protected Area (MPA) are investigated. The division of the area into zones, fully protected, partially protected, and a fishing zone, permits a combination of extractive (fishing) and touristic activities. The consequences for species conservation, commercial fishing, and touristic activities are analysed for a set of different area-size distributions and fishing-effort levels. The model parameters are based on Medes Islands MPA in the northwestern Mediterranean. For the case study, the economic analysis includes revenues from scuba diving, glass-bottom boat trips, and commercial fisheries. Our results help to illustrate the benefits of the coexistence of extractive and non-extractive activities in a realistic, three-level MPA.

scholarly journals The management of artisanal fishing within the Marine Protected Area of the Port-Cros National Park (northwest Mediterranean Sea): a success story?

2008 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwenaël Cadiou ◽  
Charles F. Boudouresque ◽  
Patrick Bonhomme ◽  
Laurence Le Diréach
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
National Park ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Fishing Effort ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Artisanal Fishing ◽  
Catch Per Unit Effort ◽  
Success Story

Abstract Cadiou, G., Boudouresque, C. F., Bonhomme, P., and Le Diréach, L. 2009. The management of artisanal fishing within the Marine Protected Area of the Port-Cros National Park (northwest Mediterranean Sea): a success story? – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 41–49. The Port-Cros National Park, France (northwest Mediterranean Sea), established in 1963, is a Marine Protected Area (MPA) where, unlike no-take areas, artisanal fishing has been permitted (except trawling), owing to social and economic pressures. Nevertheless, restrictions on artisanal fishing have increased through a fishing charter (1999). In the meantime, recreational fishing was progressively banned, which has helped as a management tool to make the restrictions on artisanal fishing acceptable in social terms. Monitoring of the artisanal fishing (2000–2005) reveals the stability of the fishing fleet (9–13 vessels); of the fishing effort [number of fishing sets per day between 3.4 (±2.1) and 6.9 (±3.4) in spring, and 3.0 (±1.7) and 5.2 (±2.7) in summer]; and of yields [catch per unit effort between 1.27 (±0.72) and 1.68 (±1.44) kg 100 m of net−1 d−1]. Furthermore, based on an analysis of available data, artisanal fishing does not jeopardize the conservation objectives of the MPA, so that, from 1963 to date, the issue has changed from “What can be done to ban commercial fishing?” to “Is there any reason to ban commercial fishing?”.

Presidents Bush and Obama in the Pacific Remote Islands

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
Justin Alger
Keyword(s):  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
White House ◽  
National Monument ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Bargaining Position ◽  
Remote Islands

This chapter analyses the campaign to expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, which was first created by President George W. Bush in 2009 and then expanded by President Barack Obama in 2014 to 1,270,000 km2. It argues that the remoteness of the monument, and the minimal commercial activity occurring within it, provided environmental groups with considerable influence in lobbying for ambitious protections. The chapter goes on to explain that the commercial fishing industry was largely unsuccessful in its efforts to limit and scale back protections for the monument. Its inability to demonstrate high interest salience in the region weakened its bargaining position with the Obama White House, thereby paving the way for stricter conservation measures.

Seagrass amphipod assemblages in a Mediterranean marine protected area: a multiscale approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 506 ◽  
pp. 175-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Sturaro ◽  
G Lepoint ◽  
A Pérez-Perera ◽  
S Vermeulen ◽  
P Panzalis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Multiscale Approach

Habitat use of toothed whales in a marine protected area based on point process models

2019 ◽  
Vol 609 ◽  
pp. 239-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
TL Silva ◽  
G Fay ◽  
TA Mooney ◽  
J Robbins ◽  
MT Weinrich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Point Process ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Point Process Models

What Values Do Tourists Place on a Marine Protected Area? White Shark Cage-Dive Tourists and the Neptune Islands

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirin Apps ◽  
Kay Dimmock ◽  
David J. Lloyd ◽  
Charlie Huveneers
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
White Shark
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