Marine Protected Areas As A Tool For Fishery Management And Ecosystem Conservation: An Introduction

摘要

This special issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is dedicated to Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and presents a range of papers from the "European Symposium on Marine Protected Areas as Tool for Fisheries Management and Ecosystem Conservation". This introduction provides a brief overview of key points from presentations, and discussions, and two science-policy roundtable sessions. The symposium was convened by two European research projects, PROTECT and EMPAFISH , funded by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission. The projects address the application of MPAs as a tool for ecosystem conservation and fishery management, from offshore fishing closures to coastal MPAs in temperate waters.