Uses of ecosystem services provided by MPAs: How much do they impact the local economy? A southern Europe perspective

Roncin, Nicolas; Alban, Frédérique; Chabrière, Éric; Crec’hriou, Romain; Modino, Raquel de la Cruz; Culioli, Jean‐Michel; Dimech, Mark; Goñi, Raquel; Guala, Ivan; Higgins, Ruth; Lavisse, Elodie; Diréach, Laurence Le; Luna, Beatriz; Marcos, Concepción; Maynou, Francesc; Pascual, José Jorge Pérez; Person, Jeremy; Smith, Philip H.; Stobart, Ben; Szelianszky, Emese; Valle, Carlos; Vaselli, Stefano; Boncœur, Jean

doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2008.09.006

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“…Marine reserves in northern parts of Europe are often driven by a combination of existence value and overarching policy obligations relating to ecosystem-based marine management and species/ habitat protection [116]. While reserve development in southern Europe is also driven by protection of biodiversity, more direct recreational uses such as diving and associated economic benefits due to the warmer, less turbid waters and well developed seabased tourism are also key factors [117,118]. In some aspects, the socio-economic aspect of southern European reserves may be more easily compared with those of the tropics, where marine reserves provide valuable economic benefits from tourism to local communities and businesses [116].…”

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The science of European marine reserves: Status, efficacy, and future needs

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The science of European marine reserves: Status, efficacy, and future needs

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“…In the Mediterranean, only a few attempts have been made to study the socio-economic attractiveness of MPAs (Badalamenti et al 2000;Roncin et al 2008) and impacts of diving activities (Sala et al 1996;Garrabou et al 1998;Coma et al 2004;Di Franco et al 2009a, b;Luna et al 2009). Yet, MPA managers are increasingly interested in containing the effects of coastal recreation with underwater trails (e.g.…”

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Snorkelers impact on fish communities and algae in a temperate marine protected area

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Multiple-use marine protected areas (MPAs) are used to manage marine resources, allocate space to different users and reduce conflicts while protecting marine biodiversity. In the Mediterranean, MPA managers are increasingly interested in containing the effects of coastal recreation within underwater trails, but snorkelers impacts on the surrounding ecosystem remain largely unknown. In a Mediterranean MPA, an underwater snorkeling trail was established to concentrate snorkelers and increase their awareness of marine habitats and species. The high level of summer frequentation may have negative impacts on the surrounding environment through trampling on the sessile flora or disturbance to the vagile fauna. We used a before-after-control-impact (BACI) design to analyse these potential human impacts. The structure of macroalgae and fish assemblages were used as indicators. Permutational multivariate analyses of variance (PERMANOVA) were carried out to assess potential temporal and spatial changes of the indicators between the trail and a control location within the adjacent no-take/no-use area. Fish communities and macroalgae were subjected to natural temporal trends but no significant impacts of snorkelers were found. Four reasons could explain the absence of snorkelers impact on the surrounding marine environment: (1) the absence of very fragile organisms within the trail (and the control no-take/no-use area) such as gorgonians or bryozoans; (2) the life cycle of the algae with a natural decreasing trend in summer, corresponding to the trail opening period; (3) only a few snorkelers are practicing apnoea; and (4) the information at the entrance and along the trail may influence the snorkelers' behaviour.

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“…The socio-economic analyses performed by Alban et al (2008), which considered all the costs involved in MPA management for the 12 case studies considered by Roncin et al (2008), showed that, as could be expected, total management costs increase with reserve size, but total cost per ha is minimum for integral marine reserves of between 600 and 1,500 ha (1,400-2,200 m radius).…”

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“…In general, recreational diving is prevailing in coastal areas, while fishing is more associated with MPAs far from the coast, where diving activities are difficult . On average, the amount of locally generated income by fishing and diving in the southern European MPAs studied by Roncin et al (2008) represented at least 2.3 times the management costs.…”

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“…The economic revenues of MPAs have been claimed as being beneficial for all stakeholder groups, especially in southern European MPAs, where the demand for diving activities increases exponentially and fishing and scuba-diving are the main coexisting uses Fenberg et al, 2012;Sala et al, 2013). A broad socio-economic field survey covering 12 case studies in southern Europe showed a variety of situations, from MPAs where commercial fishing is the major economic stake (up to 88% of total incomes locally generated by fishing and diving), to MPAs where recreational activities have a dominant economic role (where incomes generated by commercial fishing can amount to <5% of the money generated by scuba diving; Roncin et al, 2008). In general, recreational diving is prevailing in coastal areas, while fishing is more associated with MPAs far from the coast, where diving activities are difficult .…”

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North East Atlantic vs. Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas as Fisheries Management Tool

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The effectiveness of management initiatives implemented in the context of the European Common Fisheries Policy has been questioned, especially with regard to the Mediterranean. Some of the analyses made to compare the fishing activity and management measures carried out in the North East Atlantic and in the Mediterranean do not take into account some of the differentiating peculiarities of each of these regions. At the same time, they resort to traditional fisheries management measures and do not discuss the role of marine protected areas as a complementary management tool. In this respect, the apparent failure of marine protected areas in the North-East Atlantic compared with the same in the Mediterranean is challenging European fishery scientists. Application of the classical holistic view of ecological succession to the functioning of fishery closures and no-use areas highlights the importance of combining both management regimes to fully satisfy both fishery-and biodiversity-oriented goals. We advocate that an optimal management strategy for designing an MPA to protect biodiversity and sustain fishing yields consists of combining a network of no-use areas (close to their mature state) with fish boxes (buffer zones maintained by fishing disturbance in a relatively early successional stage, where productivity is higher), under a multi-zoning scheme. In this framework, the importance of no-use areas for fisheries is based on several observations: (1) They preserve biological diversity at regional scale, at all levels-specific, habitat/seascape, and also genetic diversity and the structure of populations, allowing natural selection to operate. (2) They permit the natural variability of the system to be differentiated from the effects of regulation and to be integrated in appropriate sampling schemes as controls. (3) They maintain the natural size and age structure of the populations, hence maximizing potential fecundity, allowing biomass export to occur from core to regulated areas, dampening the fluctuations derived from deviations from the theoretical optimal effort in the fishing zone.

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Uses of ecosystem services provided by MPAs: How much do they impact the local economy? A southern Europe perspective

Cited by 54 publications

References 19 publications

The science of European marine reserves: Status, efficacy, and future needs

The science of European marine reserves: Status, efficacy, and future needs

Snorkelers impact on fish communities and algae in a temperate marine protected area

North East Atlantic vs. Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas as Fisheries Management Tool

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