Beyond Marine Reserves: Exploring the Approach of Selecting Areas where Fishing Is Permitted, Rather than Prohibited
Figure 2
Marine ecosections in British Columbia and selected permitted fishing area solutions.
The marine ecosections (a) are 1 = Dixon Entrance; 2 = Hecate Strait; 3 = Johnstone Strait; 4 = Juan de Fuca Strait; 5 = North Coast Fjords; 6 = Queen Charlotte Sound; 7 = Queen Charlotte Strait; 8 = Strait of Georgia; 9 = Subarctic Pacific; 10 = Transitional Pacific; 11 = Vancouver Island Shelf; 12 = Continental Slope. The selection frequency map (b) shows the importance of areas to commercial fisheries based pm the summed solution results from Marxan. The permitted fishing area solutions (in blue) are for a sample of the scenarios that minimize the area fished with the corresponding percent reduction in commercial fishing catches: (c) 5%, (d) 20%, (e) 40%.