Fisheries Refugia: Spatially-managed fisheries enhancement and environmental protection at a regional level
A Fisheries Refugia approach is a regional system of management areas that is focused on essential links between fish stocks and their habitats. It is designed to manage intense levels of small-scale fishing pressures that exert unsustainable pressure on the fisheries and the environment. Fisheries Refugia offers an opportunity to protect ecosystem components without blanket exclusion policies and offers particular benefit where the livelihoods of coastal communities are reliant on accessing their traditional fishing grounds.
[LME:LEARN Policy Brief] Fisheries Refugia: Spatially-managed fisheries enhancement and environmental protection at a regional levelSpecial thanks goes to Andrew Dansie (UNSW Global Water Institute) who developed this policy brief on behalf of GEF LME:LEARN.
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- GEF LME:LEARN, 2020. Fisheries Refugia: Spatially-managed fisheries enhancement and environmental protection at a regional level. Paris, France.
