Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas by Decree: Lessons Learned from the Creation of the Revillagigedo Marine Park

The increasing speed of the establishment of large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPA) on a global scale has generated intense debate among the scientific community. In this paper, we revise the declaration of the Revillagigedo Marine Park, the largest marine reserve in North America, and propose a...

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Published in:Sustainability 2022-04, Vol.14 (7), p.4027
Main Authors: Saenz-Arroyo, Andrea, Camacho-Valdez, Vera
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business competition
Chelonia mydas
Collaboration
Conservation
Cooperation
Cost assessments
Decision making
Exclusive economic zone
Fishing industry
Game theory
Marine conservation
Marine parks
Marine protected areas
Maritime law
Multiple criterion
National parks
Protected areas
Sport fishing
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Summary:The increasing speed of the establishment of large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPA) on a global scale has generated intense debate among the scientific community. In this paper, we revise the declaration of the Revillagigedo Marine Park, the largest marine reserve in North America, and propose a framework to assess the potential costs and benefits of having a competitive or a cooperative strategy between the tuna fishing industry and the conservation sector. By framing scenarios in a simple model of the prisoner dilemma and using multicriteria analysis with Delphos—an open-source multicriteria program developed by NGOs for this purpose—we show how conservationists and fishers might have a potential benefit of competing for marine spaces, but not as much as they could gain if they collaborate. Our ultimate goal with this paper is to retrieve the lessons learned in this process to propose a step-by-step process that helps to improve the creation of LSMPAs in the future, thus helping improve the outcome of marine conservation on a global scale.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su14074027