Using Spatial Analysis of Fisheries and Habitat Data to Evaluate Economic Effects of Oregon Marine Reserve Sites

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Originator: The Research Group, LLC and Golden Marine Consulting

Publish Date: 2012

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Agency: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Name: Lindsay Aylesworth

Job Position: Marine Reserves Program Leader

Telephone: 541-867-4741

E-Mail Address: lindsay.x.aylesworth@odfw.oregon.gov

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Abstract: Spatially defined fisheries and habitat data, and economic models were used to estimate economic consequences from displacing commercial and recreational harvest activities from within each site of Oregon's newly adopted marine reserve system. The results give the maximum economic risk to which ocean fisheries users and coastal communities would be exposed. The modeling was a simulation, cross sectional model not suited for determining biological nor human behavioral responses from ecological relationships and economic optimization theory (sometimes referred to as bioeconomic modeling) due to marine reserve sites (MR's) design and management alternatives. Best available information was used for statistical downscaling from known data and data relationships at reference area level to a discrete MR's level. Such an exercise assumes there is a continuum within the spatial block where the information was known. Yet spatially complex fish resources populating the reference area and MR's likely make such an assumption suspect. There is growing evidence for spatial and temporal fish species hotspots and it is unknown whether Oregon's system of MR's is congruent with this behavior. If any or all of the MR's were (were not) consistent hotspots, then using downscaling would understate (overstate) the economic consequences.

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Geographic Extent: Oregon

Status: Final

Use Constraints: Prepared for Marine Resources Program, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

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