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ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil Advance Access originally published online on December 5, 2008
ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2009 66(1):147-154; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn200
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© 2008 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Published by Oxford Journals. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following ICES Journal of Marine Science issue: European Symposium on Marine Protected Areas as a Tool for Fisheries Management and Ecosystem Conservation [View the issue table of contents]

Bioeconomic model for a three-zone Marine Protected Area: a case study of Medes Islands (northwest Mediterranean)

Gorka Merino1, Francesc Maynou1 and Jean Boncoeur2

1 Institut de Ciències del Mar, Psg. Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain
2 Centre de Droit et d’Economie de la Mer, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

Correspondence to G. Merino: tel: +34 93 230 95 48; fax: +34 93 230 95 55; e-mail: gmerino{at}icm.csic.es or gmerin{at}pml.ac.uk.

Merino, G., Maynou, F., and Boncoeur, J. 2009. Bioeconomic model for a three-zone Marine Protected Area: a case study of Medes Islands (northwest Mediterranean). – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 147–154.

The bioeconomic effects of establishing a three-zone Marine Protected Area (MPA) are investigated. The division of the area into zones, fully protected, partially protected, and a fishing zone, permits a combination of extractive (fishing) and touristic activities. The consequences for species conservation, commercial fishing, and touristic activities are analysed for a set of different area-size distributions and fishing-effort levels. The model parameters are based on Medes Islands MPA in the northwestern Mediterranean. For the case study, the economic analysis includes revenues from scuba diving, glass-bottom boat trips, and commercial fisheries. Our results help to illustrate the benefits of the coexistence of extractive and non-extractive activities in a realistic, three-level MPA.

Keywords: economic analysis, fishing, Medes Islands, multi-user, tourism

Received 10 October 2007; accepted 3 June 2008; advance access publication 5 December 2008.


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