Assessing potential protection effects on commercial fish species in a Cuban MPA

作     者：Barbara Horta e Costa Jorge Angulo-Valdés Jorge M.S.Gonçalves Pedro Barros 

作者机构：Center of Marine SciencesCCMARUniversity of AlgarveCampus de GambelasFaro8005-139Portugal Centro de Investigaciones MarinasUniversidad de La HabanaCalle 16 No.114PayaLa HabanaCP 11300Cuba School of Natural Resources and EnvironmentUniversity of FloridaUnited States of America103 Black HallGainesvilleFL32611USA Centre for Marine and Environmental Research(CIMA)University of AlgarveCampus de GambelasFaro8005-139Portugal Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO)Fisheries and Aquaculture Department Marine and Inland Fisheries Branch(FIRF)Rome00153Italy 

出 版 物：《Aquaculture and Fisheries》 (渔业学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第5卷第5期

页      面：234-244页

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 0907[农学-林学] 0908[农学-水产] 090705[农学-野生动植物保护与利用] 0707[理学-海洋科学] 09[农学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：Thanks to all technicians and friends who made this work possible.B.H.C.was supported by Portuguese national funds through FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology,I.P.,in the scope of Norma Transitória DL57/2016/CP1361/CT0038 This study also received Portuguese national funds from FCT through Project UID/Multi/04326/2019 

主　　题：Cuba Marine protected areas Commercial fish species Spawning aggregations Artisanal fisheries Coral reefs 

摘      要：Cuba has been leading marine protected area(MPA)designation in the Caribbean region to ensure conservation of its valuable marine ***,an efficient monitoring program for MPAs is still to be implemented and will benefit from pre-existing *** highly regulated MPA of Punta Francés National Park is one of the first Cuban MPAs and was established mainly to protect species and ecosystems for tourism *** of protection effects on commercial fish species was lacking in this *** study aimed at increasing local scientific knowledge by providing a baseline study about the most commercially fished families(Haemulidae,Lutjanidae and Serranidae)around Punta Francés *** collected represent only a limited period but can be used as a base point to support future *** abundance in number and biomass,and size were collected to test for differences between inside and adjacent areas outside the Punta Francés MPA,in different coral reef *** main result of this study was the significantly larger size and biomass of snappers and groupers outside the MPA where intense fisheries *** observation consistent with a large spawning aggregation was also recorded outside the *** with a limited set of data,these results suggest that,at least temporarily,the most targeted species[and sizes]are still highly vulnerable to *** habitats in the adjacent area,that are apparently missing within the MPA,may support some of the results *** the limits of the Punta Francés MPA to include those habitats outside may be critical to ensure the effectiveness of this MPA in contributing to protect the most commercial species of the *** should be done together with efficient fisheries management measures in the region,such as the significantly increase of minimum legal sizes and temporal closures during spawning migrations.