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Optimal Placement of Marine Protected Areas: a Trade-off Between Fisheries Goals and Conservation Efforts
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Optimal Placement of Marine Protected Areas: a Trade-off Between Fisheries Goals and Conservation Efforts |
| Names |
De Leenheer, Patrick
(creator) |
| Date Issued | 2014-06 (iso8601) |
| Note | This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by IEEE-Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and can be found at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=9. ©2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works. |
| Abstract | Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are regions in the ocean or along coastlines where fishing is controlled to avoid the reduction or elimination of fish populations. A central question is where exactly to establish an MPA. We cast this as an optimal problem along a one-dimensional coast-line, where fish are assumed to move diffusively, and are subject to recruitment, natural death and harvesting through fishing. The functional being maximized is a weighted sum of the average fish density and the average fishing yield. It is shown that optimal controls exist, and that the location of the MPA is determined by two key model parameters, namely the size of the coast, and the weight of the average fish density in the functional. |
| Genre | Article |
| Topic | Fisheries |
| Identifier | De Leenheer, P. (2014). Optimal Placement of Marine Protected Areas: A Trade-Off Between Fisheries' Goals and Conservation Efforts. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 59(6), 1583-1587. doi:10.1109/TAC.2013.2292742 |
