As the global demand for seaweed-derived products drives the expansion of seaweed farming onto shallow coral ecosystems, the effects of farms on fish assemblages remain largely unexplored. Shallow coral reefs provide food and shelter for highly diverse fish assemblages but are increasingly modified by anthropogenic activities. We hypothesized that the introduction of seaweed farms into degraded...

The first international goal for establishing marine protected areas (MPAs) to conserve the ocean's biodiversity was set in 2002. Since 2006, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has driven MPA establishment, with 193 parties committed to protecting >10% of marine environments globally by 2020, especially 'areas of particular importance for biodiversity' (Aichi target 11). This has resu...

Networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) are being adopted globally to protect ecosystems and supplement fisheries management. The state of California recently implemented a coast-wide network of MPAs, a statewide seafloor mapping program, and ecological characterizations of species and ecosystems targeted for protection by the network. The main goals of this study were to use these data to ev...

of presentation for workshop: TOWARDS THE COORDINATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN MPAs Moving forwards on a participative, partnership and network basis in the face of uncertainty Dr Peter JS Jones, Environment & Society Research Unit, Dept of Geography, UCL The UK nature conservation agencies were fortunate in gaining LIFE funding for the UK Marine SACs Project (1996-2001; http://www.ukmarinesa...

Fish living around the coral reefs in the Philippines provide livelihoods for more than a million local fishers and are an important source of protein for coastal communities. However, this rich resource is at risk from myriad threats, which consequently threaten human livelihoods, nutrition, and health. In this paper, we examine the degree to which marine protected areas (MPAs), which aim to c...

MPAS-Ocean [4] is a component of the MPAS framework of climate models. MPAS-Ocean is an unstructured-mesh ocean model capable of using enhanced horizontal resolution in selected regions of the ocean domain. The code is publicly available for download [3] and comes with several input problems of different sizes corresponding to different simulation resolutions. In this initial study, we look at ...

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are becoming a favoured management strategy for the conservation of marine biodiversity. We present an analysis of how fishery data from a trawl fishery in northern Australia can contribute to the process of developing a system of candidate MPAs. We investigate ways of using fishing grounds, bioregion and depth information as a means of classifying ecosystems, and ...

Oceans currently face a variety of threats, requiring ecosystem-based approaches to management such as networks of marine protected areas (MPAs). We evaluated changes in fish biomass on temperate rocky reefs over the decade following implementation of a network of MPAs in the northern Channel Islands, California. We found that the biomass of targeted (i.e. fished) species has increased consiste...

The occurrence and system of detection of mesophilic and psychrotrophic aerobic sporulating microorganisms (MPAS) in raw cow’s milk were studied. Samples of raw cow’s milk from bulk tanks were collected 21 times from 14 farms during one year. MPAS assessment is based on inactivation of milk sample at the temperature of 80–82°C for 30 minutes followed by incubation in cultivation dishes at 30±1°...

Healthy oceans are essential to human survival and prosperity, yet oceans are severely impacted worldwide by anthropogenic threats including overfishing, climate change, industrialization, pollution, and habitat destruction. Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been implemented around the world and are effective conservation tools that can mitigate some of these threats and build resilience when ...