Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Consideration Of Marine Reserves And Marine Conservation Areas

Describes results from the first 5 years of monitoring the Channel Islands MPAs, discussing ecological and socioeconomic changes taking place. Also illustrates the types of information that will be used to assess the effectiveness of the MPAs in the Channel Islands. Provides details on biological and habitat monitoring, changes in commercial fishing, recreational fishing, and recreational boating, and outreach and cooperative enforcement efforts to protect the MPAs. Related materials from a special session on Channel Islands MPAs monitoring at a February 2008 California Islands Symposium are available at: http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/channel_islands/specialsession.asp.

This study also examines the spectrum of heterogeneous recreational users of the Channel Islands, proposing a methodology to measure the economic value of marine reserves on heterogeneous user populations in which a portion of the population may participate in consumptive activities while others participate exclusively in non-consumptive activities. Users were split into three unique user groups which were hypothesized to hold different preferences and values for no-take marine reserves: strictly non-consumptive users, mixed users who participate in both consumptive and non-consumptive activities, and recreational "fishing priority users" whose primary reason for traveling to the Channel Islands is to fish. Non-parametric mean welfare estimates were calculated for each of these three user groups.

If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiating process that involves both science and sensibility. While science is one key part of an adaptive and resilient society, the cultivation of a renewed sense of place and community is essential as well. Science and Sensibility argues for the need for ecology to engage with philosophical values and economic motivations in a political process of negotiation, with the goal of shaping humans' treatment of the natural world. Michael Vincent McGinnis aims to reframe ecology so it might have greater Òtrans-scientificÓ awareness of the roles and interactions among multiple stakeholders in socioecological systems, and he also maintains that deep ecological knowledge of specific places will be crucial to supporting a sustainable society. He uses numerous specific case studies from watershed, coastal, and marine habitats to illustrate how place-based ecological negotiation can occur, and how reframing our negotiation process can influence conservation, restoration, and environmental policy in effective ways. Ê

This document contains the report of the workshop and the background papers commissioned for the meeting. The report, and in particular the 'Key Points' adopted by the workshop, will serve as basis for further work on developing technical guidelines for the design, implementation and review of MPAs.

"Offers new insights for collaborative approaches in marine conservation management. Drawing from ten keystone case studies, Wondolleck and Yaffee offer carefully researched, practical advice along with five different pathways for collaborating successfully from community to multinational levels."--Page 4 of cover.