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Deepwater habitat and fish resources associated with a marine reserve: implications for fisheries
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2001
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Alternative Title:Deepwater habitat and fish resources associated with a marine reserve: implications for fisheries
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Description:Big Creek Ecological Research Reserve (BCER), located off the Big Sur coast, has been closed to fishing since January 1994. We combined the use of sidescan sonar, bottom profiling, and occupied submersible operations to identify and characterize large- (i.e., 100s of meters to kilometers) and small-scale (i.e., 1 meter to 10s of meters) habitats and associated benthic fish resources in deep water inside and adjacent to BCER. Our objectives were to estimate species-habitat relationships, abundance (measured as density: number of fish per habitat-specific area), and species and size composition of fish assemblages, and to compare these variables inside and outside the reserve and between two years of increased protection.
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Rights Information:CC0 Public Domain
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