Marine conservation in Oceania: Past, present, and future

Friedlander, Alan M.

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.05.064

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“…Further, as coastal regions are purchased by investors, public access to the ocean is increasingly restricted (Roy et al 2018;Komugabe-Dixson et al 2019). The global decline of traditional cultures that support local connections with the ocean is also contributing to increasing disconnectedness (Friedlander 2018); as younger generations move into urban environments and adopt 'modern' lifestyles, or as population diversity increases, local knowledge and practices are diluted and lost (Komugabe-Dixson et al 2019).…”

Section: Ocean Literacymentioning

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Connecting to the oceans: supporting ocean literacy and public engagement

Kelly

Evans

Alexander

et al. 2021

Rev Fish Biol Fisheries

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Improved public understanding of the ocean and the importance of sustainable ocean use, or ocean literacy, is essential for achieving global commitments to sustainable development by 2030 and beyond. However, growing human populations (particularly in mega-cities), urbanisation and socioeconomic disparity threaten opportunities for people to engage and connect directly with ocean environments. Thus, a major challenge in engaging the whole of society in achieving ocean sustainability by 2030 is to develop strategies to improve societal connections to the ocean. The concept of ocean literacy reflects public understanding of the ocean, but is also an indication of connections to, and attitudes and behaviours towards, the ocean. Improving and progressing global ocean literacy has potential to catalyse the behaviour changes necessary for achieving a sustainable future. As part of the Future Seas project (https://futureseas2030.org/), this paper aims to synthesise knowledge and perspectives on ocean literacy from a range of disciplines, including but not exclusive to marine biology, socio-ecology, philosophy, technology, psychology, oceanography and human health. Using examples from the literature, we outline Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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Section: Ocean Literacymentioning

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Connecting to the oceans: supporting ocean literacy and public engagement

Kelly

Evans

Alexander

et al. 2021

Rev Fish Biol Fisheries

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“…The people of the Pacific have long relied on the ocean for sustenance, commerce and cultural identity, which has resulted in a sophisticated understanding of the marine environment and its conservation (Bambridge, 2016;Friedlander, 2018;Johannes, 1982). Some Pacific Island cultures learned that their resources were limited and introduced appropriate conservation measures, while others surpassed those limits, which ultimately led to them exceeding their carrying capacity (Johannes, 2002a;Tainter, 2006).…”

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“…Some Pacific Island cultures learned that their resources were limited and introduced appropriate conservation measures, while others surpassed those limits, which ultimately led to them exceeding their carrying capacity (Johannes, 2002a;Tainter, 2006). Many of the marine management strategies that we have today were developed thousands of years ago by Indigenous peoples, and these strategies were particularly well developed in the Pacific Islands (Friedlander, 2015(Friedlander, , 2018Johannes, 1978Johannes, , 1982.…”

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Progress, opportunities and challenges for marine conservation in the Pacific Islands

Friedlander

Gaymer

2020

Aquatic Conservation

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1. The people of the Pacific have long relied on the ocean for sustenance, commerce and cultural identity, which resulted in a sophisticated understanding of the marine environment and its conservation. 2. The global declines in ocean health require new and innovative approaches to conserving marine ecosystems. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been shown to be a highly effective means of conserving biodiversity and managing fisheries, while also restoring and preserving overall ecosystem function. 3. Traditional ecological knowledge held by many island peoples in the Pacific is critical to the development, design and implementation of contemporary MPAs. 4. Chile's offshore islands are among the few oceanic archipelagos along the west coast of South America. These islands have cultural and ecological connections to the broader insular Pacific, yet our scientific understanding of them is extremely limited. 5. Chile has created several large-scale MPAs around their offshore archipelagos. By protecting these unique ecosystems, Chile has established itself as a global leader in marine conservation. 6. Effective management and a better understanding of social-ecological interactions are currently the biggest challenges facing MPAs in the Pacific Islands.

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“…Given the urgent need for management and the failure of many top‐down management regimes in Oceania (Johannes , ; Friedlander ), we recommend a community‐based management approach to implementing these conservation actions based on local participation in the monitoring of the resource (Mcclanahan et al. ; Wilson et al.…”

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Length‐Based Assessment of an Artisanal Albulid Fishery in the South Pacific: a Data‐Limited Approach for Management and Conservation

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Data‐limited fisheries assessment methods have great potential to help inform small island communities on the status of their fisheries resources. In this paper, we provide a length‐based assessment of an artisanal fishery that primarily targets spawning aggregations of Shortjaw Bonefish Albula glossodonta at Anaa Atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia. We assessed the length‐frequency distribution of the spawning stock across a 3‐year period (2016–2018). During this time, male and female Shortjaw Bonefish were fully recruited to the fishery at age 4 and age 5, respectively. Fishing mortality was over two times the range of natural mortality for this species (i.e., 0.21–0.32), and based on these estimates of natural mortality, the annual spawning potential ratio of the population was between 7% and 20% across the sampling years. The majority of the catch was sexually mature, with 78, 95, and 95% of the annual female catch in 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively, being equal to or greater than the length of first maturity (i.e., 48 cm FL). However, every fisheries indicator and biological reference point suggested that the fishery was overexploited and in need of management intervention. To this aim, the community of Anaa (1) established an Educational Managed Marine Area, which overlaps with the Shortjaw Bonefish migratory corridor adjacent to Tukuhora village and (2) instated a temporal rahui (a traditional conservation method) inside the Educational Managed Marine Area during the peak months of the spawning season.

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Marine conservation in Oceania: Past, present, and future

Cited by 49 publications

References 91 publications

Connecting to the oceans: supporting ocean literacy and public engagement

Connecting to the oceans: supporting ocean literacy and public engagement

Progress, opportunities and challenges for marine conservation in the Pacific Islands

Length‐Based Assessment of an Artisanal Albulid Fishery in the South Pacific: a Data‐Limited Approach for Management and Conservation

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