Multivariate environment-fish biomass model informs sustainability and lost income in Indian Ocean coral reefs

TR McClanahan, S D'agata, NAJ Graham, MA Kodia… - Marine Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Many tropical reef fisheries are underperforming relative to maximum sustained yields
despite their importance for the economies and food security of natural resource dependent …

Marine reserve more sustainable than gear restriction in maintaining long-term coral reef fisheries yields

TR McClanahan - Marine Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
The long-term consequences of managing overfished fisheries through either gear
restrictions or closures are among the many dilemmas facing small-scale fisheries …

Fisheries yields and species declines in coral reefs

TR McClanahan - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Negative trade-offs between food production and biodiversity and the positive functional
diversity–productivity relationships are potentially conflicting paradigms that are frequently …

[HTML][HTML] Dependence on seagrass fisheries governed by household income and adaptive capacity

BLH Jones, RKF Unsworth, LM Nordlund… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seagrass meadows, like other tropical coastal ecosystems, are highly productive and
sustain millions of people worldwide. However, the factors that govern the use of seagrass …

Usage and coordination of governance principles to address proximate and distal drivers of conflicts in fisheries commons

TR McClanahan - Conservation Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Commons' problems and solutions have the elements of local, proximate, and large‐scale
distal processes. Solutions, therefore, require accessing, implementing, and coordinating …

Low optimal fisheries yield creates challenges for sustainability in a climate refugia

TR McClanahan, JK Kosgei - Conservation Science and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reducing resource depletion and promoting ecosystem‐based management are
considered key climate change adaptation policies. Therefore, the resource status of an …

Nutrient capture and sustainable yield maximized by a gear modification in artisanal fishing traps

BPG SJ, TR McClanahan… - Environmental Research …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Coral reef artisanal fisheries are an important source of nutrition and economic wellbeing for
coastal communities, but their management is subject to conflicts and tradeoffs between …

Variability in coral reef fish baseline and benchmark biomass in the central and western Indian Ocean provinces

TR McClanahan, AM Friedlander… - Aquatic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reef fish biomass is increasingly recognized as a key indicator of fishery and biodiversity
status linked to ecosystem integrity on coral reefs, and yet the evaluation of appropriate …

Best‐practice fisheries management associated with reduced stocks and changes in life histories

TR McClanahan, AM Friedlander, L Wantiez… - Fish and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Current best‐practice policy recommendations for managing fish stocks are achieved by a
mixture of maintaining modest fishing mortality (restricting effort, times and gear), marine …

Wilderness and conservation policies needed to avoid a coral reef fisheries crisis

TR McClanahan - Marine Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Conservation and management policies rely on the perceived status of marine ecosystems,
which are influenced by proxies and estimation methods. These include the number of …