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2002 World Congress on Aquatic Protected Areas

Proceedings now available
The inaugural World Congress on Aquatic Protected Areas

Potential Changes in Prey Population Structure Following Removal of Predators by Fishing
Ameer Abdulla

Ecology, Importance and Conservation of Coastal Lagoons of the Southern Coast of the Sultanate of Oman
Rajan Anbiah, Alawi Salem Al Hafidh and Ali Rajab Al Mushekhi

Marine Protected Areas - Interaction between Biodiversity Conservation and Fisheries Management
Pascale Baelde

Importance of Recruitment Cues for Maintenance of Upstream Populations of diadromous galaxiids in Protected Areas within New Zealand
Cindy Baker

Intertidal Habitat Classification and the Identification of a Network of Aquatic Protected Areas
Simon Banks, Greg A Skilleter, Hugh Possingham and Ian Ball

The Feasibility and Practicalities of Establishing a System of Freshwater Protected Areas in the Murray-Darling Basin - a Hypothetical Case Study
Jim Barrett

A Decade of Biotic Change in Tasmanian Marine Protected Areas
Neville Scott Barrett, Graham Edgar, Colin Buxton, Alastair Morton, Malcolm Haddon and Caleb Gardiner

Designing Representative MPAs in a Structured Environment
Nic Bax and Alan Williams

The Importance of Protecting the Bowie Seamount Ecosystem off the Pacific Coast of Canada
Dick Beamish and Dick Carson

Multivariate Demographic Indices Used to Measure the Performance of Marine Protected Areas on the Increased Sustainability and Productivity of Exploited Coral Reef Fish Stocks
Gavin Begg, Bruce Mapstone, Samantha Adams, Ashley Williams, Campbell Davies and Dong Lou

The Great Australian Bight Marine Park (State and Commonwealth Waters)
Ross Belcher

Designing Aquatic Protected Areas - the Use of Otolith Microchemistry to Determine Stock Structure of Reef Fish Metapopulations
Mikaela Bergenius, Peter Doherty, Michael Kinsford and Garry Russ

It Looks Good on Paper, but Will it Work in Practice? - Improving Compliance With Aquatic Protected Areas
Mick Bishop

Sustaining Australia's Multi-Species Finfish Fisheries - a Community View on the Role of MPAs
Craig Bohm

Supporting Conservation Program for Marine Species into Red List through Cooperative Efforts
Carlos Bohorquez

Conservation Assessments for Marine Protected Areas in New South Wales, Australia
Daniel Breen, Ron Avery and Nicholas Otway

Marine Fisheries of the United States - Moving From Single-Species, Gear-Restricted, Area-Based Management to a More Holistic Ecosystem-Based Approach?
Robert Brock

An Inventory of Important Coastal Fisheries Habitats in South Australia
Simon Bryars

Antarctic Marine Protected Areas - Options for the Balleny Islands Archipelago
Jacqui Burgess Emma Waterhouse, Alan Hemmings, Peter Wilson and Matthew Paterson

Prioritizing Watersheds to Recover Pacific Salmon and Trout in the Coastal Province of Oregon, USA.
Kelly Burnett Gordon Reeves, Dan Miller, Ken Vance-Borland, Kelly Christiansen and Sharon Clarke

Managing the Spread of Translocated Native Fish into Aquatic Protected Areas in Queensland
Damien Burrows

Using the Mud Crab (Scylla serrata) as an Indicator Species of the Effectiveness of Estuarine Marine Protected Areas
Paul Butcher, Steve Smith and Andrew Boulton

Must APAs be 'All at Sea'? Making the Most of What We Already Have for 'Terrestrial' Aquatic Protected Areas
Mark Butz

The Mission Beach Trawl Closure - a Response to Community Expectations in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
Phil Cadwallader

Advantages and Applications of Novel “Video-Fishing” Techniques to Design and Monitor Marine Protected Areas
Mike Cappo, Euan Harvey and Hamish Malcolm

Principles and Methods used to Identify a Bioregional System of Marine Protected Areas in South Australia
1Baker J., 2Brook J., 2Kildea T., 1Paxinos R., and 1von Baumgarten P.

Community-Initiated Aquatic Protected Areas in Western Australia
Colin Chalmers

Declaration and Management of The Abrolhos Islands Fish Habitat Protection Area
Colin Chalmers

How Great is Great? State of the Environment Reporting for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
Andrew Chin and David Wachenfield

The New Zealand Seamount Management Strategy - Steps Towards Conserving Offshore Marine Habitat
Malcolm Clark and Stuart Brodie

A Real-Time Statistical Modelling System using Catch Data and Vessel Moitoring System (VMS) Data Applied to a Scallop Fishery
Peter Clifford and Tony Dixon

Managing Impacts of Adjacent Development on Aquatic Protected Areas: Case Studies from the Declared Trinity Inlet Fish Habitat Area
Robert Coles, Rebecca Sheppard, Louise Johns and Kurt Derbyshire

Rise to the Future - a Review of the US National Forest Fisheries Program
Glen Contreras, Mark Hudy and Mike Dombeck

Marine Protected Areas as Fisheries Management Tools
Wendy Craik

Stakeholder Participation and the Scientific Method in Performance Assessment of Marine Protected Areas: Maximising Benefits and Minimising Conflicts
Nancy Dahl-Tacconi

One Year Assessment of the Health of Coral and Fish Assemblages in the National Marine Park of Fernando de Noronha, PE, Brazil
Cristiana Damiano, Lisandro Almeida, Claudio Bellini and Sergio Salvati

Creating a National System of Marine Protected Areas that is Comprehensive, Adequate, Representative and Popular!
Kate Davey

Retrospective Assessment of the Effects of Marine Protected Areas on Relative Abundance and Size Structure of Populations of Harvested Reef Fish on the Great Barrier Reef
Campbell Davies and Bruce Mapstone

Regional Marine Planning - Implementing Ecosystem-Based Management of Australia's Oceans
Campbell Davies, Meredith Hall, Heather Deese and Barbara Musso

Size Matters for Kelp Forest Reserves
Gary E. Davis, Peter L. Haaker, Daniel J. Kushner, Ian Taniguchi and Daniel V. Richards

Current Policy Trends in the Planning of Marine Protected Areas
John Davis

Remote - Sensing and GIS Technologies - Supporting the Protection of Representative Fish Habitats in Queensland
Christina de Vries, K F Danaher and M C Dunning

Trader - an Heuristic Method for Designing Protected Areas
Glenn De'ath

Elements of a Marine Protected Area in a Small Island Developing State - Republic of Maldives
Geoff Dews, Hussain Naeem, Unair Mohamed Badeeu, Aishath Hameed and Aminath Latheefa

Rights to Waters - Who and What are the Beneficiaries of Aquatic Protected Areas
Rodney Dillon

Indicators of Coral Reef Health - Integrating Views of the Community
Elizabeth Dinsdale and Mark Fenton

Marine Mammal and Turtle Strandings in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
Kirstin Dobbs

Marine Biogeography and Patterns of Marine Biodiversity along the South Australian Coast - Developing a Technical Framework for a Representative System of Marine Protected Areas
1Karen Edyvane and 2Janine Baker

Planning a Comprehensive, Adequate and Representative System of Marine Protected Areas in Tasmania
Karen Edyvane and Peter Bosworth

Modelling Trawl Impact on Benthic Biota in the Great Barrier Reef Region
Nick Ellis, Francis Pantus and C. Roland Pitcher

The Cuban Marine Protected Area System
Reinaldo Estrada

Protecting Representative Areas of Biodiversity in the Biggest Coral Reef Ecosystem in the World
Leanne Fernandes, Jon Day, A Lewis, S Slegers, D Lowe and Trevor Ward

Marine Protected Areas as Fisheries Management Tools
Joanna Fisher

Where do Marine Protected Areas fit within an Ecologically Sustainable Development Framework?
Rick Fletcher

Applying the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme to Activities in Aquatic Protected Areas
Robert Gale

Is There a Place for Aquatic Protected Areas in the Management of Small Pelagic Fish in Coastal Waters?
Daniel Gaughan

A Test of the Value of Higher taxa as Surrogates for Species in Marine Reserve Selection
William Gladstone and Tim Alexande

Structure of a Temperate Reef Fish Community Prior to the Establishment of a Marine Protected Area
Emanuel Goncalves, Miguel Henriques and Vítor Almada

The Use of Ecosystem Modelling for the Evaluation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) - the Great Barrier Reef - a Case Study
Neil Gribble

The Legal Framework and Enforcement Experience of Marine Protected Areas in Tasmania, New South Wales, and Commonwealth Waters
Warwick Gullett

The Effect of Introducing MPAs on a Commercial Fishery - A Rock Lobster Example
Malcom Haddon and Colin Buxton

Establishing Marine Protected Areas in Vietnam - a Capacity Building Approach
James Hall and Bui Thi Thu Hien

Tourism-Related Financing Mechanisms for Marine Protected Areas - International Trends and Case Studies
Elizabeth Halpenny

Marine Protected Areas Generally Require More Specific Objectives for Efficiency and Broad Community Acceptability
Norman Halse

What are our Options for the Protection of Freshwater Ecosystems and the Services on which we Rely for Sustaining Human Life?
Michelle Handley and Denis Landenbergue

Failures and Opportunities - Marine Protected Areas and Antarctica
Quentin Hanich

Freshwater Reserves in New South Wales, Australia - a Powerful but Unused Tool for Conserving Freshwater Biodiversity
Amy Hankinson and Stuart Blanch

Blame my Grandmother - She said it was OK!
John Harrison

Use of Surrogates for the Rapid Assessment of Marine Biodiversity
Euan Harvey, Gary Kendrick, Euan Harvey, Mat Vanderklift and Di Walker

Potential Surrogates for Benthic Communities of the Northern Prawn Fishery
Mick Haywood, Bill Venables, Scott Condie, Kenton Lawson and Rodrigo Bustamante

The Role of Marine Protected Areas in the Management of the Australian Northern Prawn Fishery
Eddie Hegerl and Neil Loneragan

Are the Long -Term Monitoring Methods Transferable to Representative Areas
Susanne Helmke, Eddie Jebreen, Chad Lunow, Clare Bullock, Rod Garrett and Neil Gribble

The Establishment of a Representative Marine Conservation Reserve System in Western Australia
Andrew Hill

Current and Future Practices in Reporting Management Performance - a Case Study from South Eastern Australia
Don Hough, Laurie Ferns and Matt Edmunds

Community Engagement in the Establishment of Marine Protected Areas - an Australian Case Study
Don Hough and Joan Phillips

Marine Protected Areas in New South Wales National Parks - Inventory and Role in Marine Conservation
Rodney James and Simon Banks

Designing Protected Areas for Small Fish in the Zostera Seagrass Beds of an Estuary: What Features Matter?
Jane Jelbart, Pauline Ross and Rod Connolly

Metapopulation Structure of a Temperate Fish in Relation to Spatial Variation in Hydrodynamics - Implications for Selection of Marine Protected Areas
Gregory Jenkins, Anthony Fowler and Kerry Black

Baja California to Bering Sea Marine Conservation Initiative: An Example of Tri-National Cooperation on Marine Protected Areas
Sabine Jessen and Natalie Lerch

Establishing Marine Protected Areas in British Columbia - an NGO Experience
Sabine Jessen

The Role of Habitat Mapping in Marine Protected Area Planning – a Case Study in the Bruny Bioregion
Alan Jordan and Neville Barrett

Long-Term Visual and Acoustic Cetacean Surveys in Komodo National Park, Indonesia 1999-2001 - Management Implications for Large Migratory Marine Life
Benjamin Kahn and Jos S Pet

Freshwater Aquatic Protected Areas - Protecting Species, Communities or Ecosystem Processes
John Koehn

The Role of Aquatic Protected Areas in the Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems - the Sri Lankan Experience
A A Kulatunga and Robert Cordover

Mapping Commercial Marine Fisheries and Their Resource -Dependant Coastal Communities, South-Eastern Australia
James Larcombe and Kate Brooks

Developing a System of Effectively Managed Marine Sanctuaries in the Philippines - a National Network Strategy
Margarita Lavides, Isidore Ancog, Orlando Arciaga, Socrates Banzuela and Marivic Pajaro

Participatory Marine Sanctuary Monitoring - a significant Tool in Building a National Community of Local Research Partners in the Philippines
Margarita Lavides, Jose Ma. Antonio Bringas, William Ong III, Ma. Laura Bande, Don Geoff Tabaranza and Darwin Raymundo

Law Reaches New Depths - the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents Marine Protected Area
David Leary

What Does Larval Fish Biology Tell Us About the Design and Efficacy of Marine Protected Areas?
Jeff Leis

A Comprehensive, Adequate and Representative Network of No-take Areas for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park - Putting Reserve Design Methods into Practice
Adam Lewis, Leanne Fernandes, Suzanne Sledgers, David Lowe, Jon Day and Glenn De'ath

How do Fishing Closures Influence Fish Biodiversity? - a Case Study
Janet Ley, Ian A Halliday, Andrew J Tobin, Rod N Garrett and Neil A Gribble

Size and Configuration Matter - Impacts of Boundary Infringements in Marine Protected Areas
Rich Little, Tony Smith, Francis Pantus, Andre Punt, Bruce Mapstone and Campbell Davies

Calliope Fish Habitat Proposal - a Case Study
Peter Long

Effects of Aquatic Protection Areas on the Age Structure of Common Coral Trout (Plectropomus leopardus) in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area of Australia
Dong Chun Lou, Garry Russ, Bruce Mapstone and Campbell Davies

Community Reef Monitoring at the Great Barrier Reef - Is Community Participation in Environmental Projects Paying Off?
Leane Makey and Carl Stepath

Management Strategy Evaluation - an Integrated Predictive Approach to Evaluating Marine Protected Area Strategies
Bruce Mapstone, Tony Smith, Campbell Davies, Andre Punt, Rich Little and Francis Pantus

Potential Benefits of Aquatic Protected Areas for Competing Users
Bruce Mapstone, Renae Partridge and Marcus Sheaves

Rock lobsters, Reserves and Redundancy
Stephen Mayfield, Lara Atkinson, George Branch and Andrew Cockcroft

Selection and Assessment Criteria for Fish Habitat Areas in Queensland, Australia
Scott McKinnon and Rebecca Sheppard

The Fish Habitat Area Network in Queensland, Australia - an Innovative Aquatic Protected Area Approach
Scott McKinnon and Rebecca Sheppard

Assessment of Methods to Achieve 'No Net Loss' of Habitat Functions within a Fisheries Management APA
Samantha J Miller, Greg A Skilleter and Ross H Quinn

Tackling Water Quality Issues for the Great Barrier Reef - Gains, Pains and Lessons
Sheriden Morris

Measuring Performance of a Marine Conservation Programme in Komodo National Park, West Flores, Indonesia - an Integrated Approach to Priority-Setting, Threat Assessment, Strategizing, Taking Action, and Monitoring
Peter J Mous, Jos S Pet, Rili Djohani, Dan Salzer and Muttulingam Sanjayan

Economic Perspective on the Performance of Marine Protected Areas – Long -Term Changes in Harvest Revenues under a Range of Closure and Effort Limitation Scenarios
Geoffrey Muldoon, Bruce Mapstone, Campbell Davies, Tony Smith, Rich Little and Gavin Begg

Contrasting Effects of Marine Protected Areas on the Abundance of Two Exploited Reef Fishes at the Sub-Tropical Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia
Kim Nardi, G P Jones, M Moran and Y W Cheng

Representative Freshwater Protected Areas - the Australian Context
Jon Nevill and Ngiare Phillips

A Review of Generic No-Take Zones and Traditional Fishery Closure Systems and their Application to the Management of Tropical Fishery Resources along the Coast of North-Western Australia
Stephen Newman, James W Penn, Glenn A Hyndes and Peter C Stephenson

Why Should We Be Able to Kill Fish Everywhere?
Douglas Nicol

Natural Resource Management Community Groups in the Wet Tropics
Simon O'Donnell

Alaskan Marine Protected Areas - Opportunity for Indigenous - Co-management Using Traditional Knowledge and Wisdom
George Owletuck

Assessing the Conservation Values of Queensland Estuaries for the Purposes of Marine Park Planning and Review
Andrew Page and David Hoolihan

Framework to Support Management for Sustainable Natural Resource Use and Conservation of Biodiversity
C. Roland Pitcher, Francis Pantus and Nick Ellis

Potential Benefits of Aquatic Protected Areas for Competing Users
Renae Partridge, Bruce Mapstone and Marcus Sheaves

Improving Fish Habitat Upstream of an Aquatic Protected Area, Bowling Green Bay, North Queensland
Colton Nicholas Perna and George Lukacs

The Development, Outcomes and Future of a Species-Specific Area Closure Implemented by the Indigenous Communities of Northern Cape York
Michael Phelan

Governance Issues Influencing the Success of Marine Protected Areas and the Management of the Surrounding Seas
Joan Phillips, Kathy Walls and Don Hough

Effectiveness of No-Take Marine Reserves in Subtropical Queensland, Australia
Suzanne Pillans, Ron Johnstone, Hugh Possingham and Geoff Dews

Effects of Prawn Trawling on Seabed Fauna
C. Roland Pitcher, Charis Burridge, Ted Wassenberg, Ian Poiner, Burke Hill and Steve Blaber

Winning the Battle or Winning the War - Protected Area Site Selection in Remote or High Use Areas
Frank Prokop

Establishing a Representative System of Marine Protected Areas in New South Wales, Australia
Andrew Read and Kevin Shanahan

Aboriginal Cultural Subregions as Surrogates for Biodiversity Conservation Mosaics, Cape York, Australia - Towards Reconciliation of Management Values and Realities
Chris Roberts and Gerhardt Pearson

Balancing Native Fish Diversity, Exotic Fish Impacts, and Recreational Fishing in New Zealand North Island Dune Lakes
David Rowe

A Preliminary Assessment of Two North Queensland Estuaries Containing 'No-Take' Fish Reserves - Quantifying the Variability in Relative Abundance and Length Distributions of Target Species
Karen Rudkin, John Kirkwood, Jean-Marc Hero and Michael Arthur

Protection of Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations - What are the Benefits?
Martin Russell

First Define Your Closure Objectives - Easier Said than Done!
Martin Russell and Phil Cadwallader

Developing Integrated Performance Measures for Marine Systems
Keith Sainsbury, David Smith, Margaret Moore and Don Hough

Monitoring Responses to Marine Protected Areas: Baseline Data from a BACI Design in the Philippines
Melita Samoilys, Melita Samoilys, Jonathan Anticamara, Brian Giles and Erwin Brunio

The Trinity Inlet Fish Habitat Area – Declaration and Management
Rebecca Sheppard and Rob Coles

Fish Habitat Area Consultation with Indigenous Communities - the Cape York Experience
Rebecca Sheppard

Spatial planning on the Great Barrier Reef - the Good and the Bad
Andrew Skeat and John Baldwin

Assessing the Importance of Coastal Habitats for Fisheries, Biodiversity and Marine Reserves - a New Approach Taking into Account Habitat 'Mosaics'
Greg Skilleter and Neil Loneragan

The Role of Protected Areas in Management of Multi-species Fisheries
Anthony Smith and David Smith

Environmental Education and Participatory Action in the Tropical Marine Environment
Carl M. Stepath

Consultation with Aboriginal People for Planning and Management of Multiple - Use Marine Parks in New South Wales, Australia - a Case Study - Solitary Islands Marine Park
Libby Sterling, Tony Perkins and Dee Murphy

Planning the Management of New South Wales Marine Parks
Libby Sterling, Geoff Kelly and Grahame Byron

System Solutions in Marine Reserve Design
Romola Stewart and Hugh Possingham

A Process for Determining which Species Should be the Focus of Protected Areas, when Information is Scarce and Diversity High
Ilona Stobutzki, Burke Hill, Margaret Miller and David Brewer

Bioregional Frameworks for Assessment of Freshwater Biodiversity in Australia
Jim Tait and Rochelle Lawson

Marine Protected Areas - Valuing Stakeholder Knowledge and Expertise
Peter Taylor

Determining Reef Fish Abundance in Marine Protected Areas in the Northern Mariana Islands
Michael Trianni

A Whodunnit – How Necropsies of Dugongs, Turtles and Cetaceans Lead to Better Marine Wildlife Management in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
Malcolm Turner and Kirsten Dobbs

Public Participation in New Zealand Marine Reserve Management – the Effectiveness of Marine Reserve Advisory Committees
Laani Uunila

Beyond Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management - Incorporating Terrestrial and Underwater Cultural Resources in Aquatic Protected Areas to Aid Community Development, Enhance Tourism and Facilitate Resource Stewardship
Gail Vander Stoep

Using Catchment Wide Investing Catchment Wide Investigations to Evaluate and Target the Management of Coombabah Lake: an Aquatic Protected Area
Nathan Waltham, Riku Koskela and Peter Joy

Giving up Fishing Ground to Reserves - The Costs and Benefits
Trevor Ward

Multi-Scale Decision Support for Aquatic Protected Area Placement
Reg Watson

Why Bother Assessing the Performance of Australian Commonwealth Marine Reserves ?
Alex Wells

Regional Differences in the Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas for Conservation of Red Throat Emperor Stocks on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Ashley Williams, Bruce D. Mapstone and Campbell R. Davies

Involving Fishers in Identifying, Selecting and Designing MPAs
Alan Williams and Nic Bax

Restoration of Koaro (Galaxias Brevipinnis) in a New Zealand Lake - Integrating Traditional Indigenous Resource Management Practices with Contemporary Conservation Biology
Kim Young

Sanganeb National Marine Park, Sudan: Successful Conservation of a Complex Coral Reef Ecosystem
Mohammed Younis Abdelsalam and Fareed Krup

Marine Reserves - Time for a Global Perspective
Dirk Zeller

Pressures and Threats From Within and Adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
Imogen Zethov

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