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References and further reading

Web sites

• Food and Agriculture Organisation of UN (FAO). Status of world fisheries and aquaculture 2002. Available at: www.fao.org/docrep/005/y7300e/y7300e00.htm
  
  
• Greenpeace. North and Baltic Seas Marine Reserves Report - PDF file
  
  
• MPA News. Available at http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/issues.html
  
  
• Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution reports available at www.rcep.org.uk/index.htm
  
  

Academic Articles

• Cox, C., and Hunt, J.H. (2005) Change in size and abundance of Caribbean spiny lobsters Panulirus argus in a marine reserve in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 294: 227-23
  
  
• Davidson, R.J. (2001) Changes in population parameters and behaviour of blue cod (Parapercis colias; Pinguipedidae) in Long Island - Lokomohua Marine Reserve, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 11, 17-435
  
  
• Faunce, C.H., Lorenz, J.J., Ley, J.A., and Serafy, J.E. (2002) Size structure of grey snapper (Lutjanus griseus) within a mangrove 'no-take' sanctuary. Bulletin of Marine Science 70, pp. 211-216
  
  
• Gell, F. R., and Roberts, C. M., (2003) Benefits beyond boundaries: the fishery effects of marine reserves Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18:9, 1-8
  
  
• Grafton, R.Q. Kompas, T. (2005) Uncertainty and the active adaptive management of marine reserves Marine Policy 29, 5, 471-479
  
  
• Halpern, B.S. (2003) The impact of marine reserves: Do reserves work and does reserve size matter? Ecological Applications 13, 1 Supplement: 117-137
  
  
• Kelly, S., Scott, D., MacDiarmid, AB, and Babcock, RC. (2000) Spiny lobster, Jasus edwardsii recovery in New Zealand marine reserves. Biological Conservation 92, 359-369
  
  
• Langlois, T.J., and Ballantine, W.J. (2005) Marine Ecological Research in New Zealand: Developing Predictive Models through the Study of No-Take Marine Reserves Conservation Biology 1763
  
  
• Maypa, A.P. et al. (2002) Long-term trends in yield and catch rates of the coral reef fishery at Apo Island, Central Philippines. Marine and Freshwater Research 53, 207-213
  
  
• McClanahan T.R. and Mangi S. (2000) Spillover of exploitable fishes from a marine park and its effect on the adjacent fishery. Ecological Applications 10, pp. 1792-1805
  
  
• McClanahan, T. and Graham, N. (2005) Recovery trajectories of coral fish assemblages within Kenyan marine protected areas. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 294:241-248
  
  
• Murawski, SA Wigley, SE Fogarty, MJ Rago, PJ Mountain, DG (2005) Effort distribution and catch patterns adjacent to temperate MPAs ICES Journal of Marine Science 62
  
  
• Parnell PE, Lennert-Cody CE, Geelen L, Stanley LD, Dayton PK (2005) Effectiveness of a small marine reserve in southern California Marine Ecology Progress Series 296: 39-52
  
  
• Pauly, D, Christensen, V, Guenette, S, Pitcher, TJ, Sumaila, UR, Walters, CJ, Watson, R and Zeller, D (2002) 'Towards sustainability in world fisheries'. Nature 418: 689-695
  
  
• Pillans, S., Pillans, R.D., Johnstone, R.W., Kraft, P.G., Haywood, M.D.E., and Possingham, H.P. (2005) Effects of marine reserve protection on the mud crab Scylla serrata in a sex-biased fishery in subtropical Australia Marine Ecology Progress Series 295: 201-213
  
  
• Roberts, C.M., Bohnsack, J., A., Gell, F., Hawkins, J.P., and Goodridge, R. (2001) Effects of Marine Reserves on Adjacent Fisheries. Science 30, 294. no. 5548, pp. 1920-1923
  
  
• Roberts, C.M. and Sargant, H. (2002). The fishery benefits of fully protected marine reserves: why habitat and behaviour are important. Nat. Res. Mod. 15, 487-507
  
  
• Sala, E., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Paredes, G, Parra I., Barrera, J. C., and Dayton, P.K. (2002) A General Model for Designing Networks of Marine Reserves Science 6:1991-1993
  
  
• Shaffer, M. L. (1981). Minimum Population Sizes for Species Conservation. BioScience 31 (2): 131-134
  
  
• Willis, T.J., Parson, D.M., and Babcock, R.C. (2001) Evidence of long-term site fidelity of snapper (Pagrus auratus) within a marine reserve. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 35, 581-590
  
  
• Yamasaki, A. and Kuwahara, A. (1990) Preserved area to effect recovery of over-fished Zuwai crab stocks off Kyoto Prefecture. Proceedings of the International Symposium on King and Tanner Crabs 575-585