“…Our main objective is to explore how fisher selectivity coupled with changes in catch alters the precariousness and reversibility of a coral-to-macroalgae regime shift. Our model is broadly grounded by the coral reef system of Moorea, French Polynesia, where there is detailed knowledge of the dynamics of the reef community (Adam et al, 2011(Adam et al, , 2014(Adam et al, , 2022Han et al, 2016;Holbrook et al, 2016Holbrook et al, , 2018Holbrook et al, , 2022Schmitt et al, 2019Schmitt et al, , 2022 and the small-scale reef fishery and fisher behavior (Holbrook et al, 2022;Lauer et al, 2022;Leenhardt et al, 2016;Nassiri et al, 2021;Rassweiler et al, 2020Rassweiler et al, , 2022.…”