Although the title of this symposium implied a focus on fully protected marine areas, most presentations actually dealt with a range of traditional 'marine protected areas' or 'marine managed areas' that offer less than 'full' resource protection. Some pr...

"Remote Sensing of Aquatic Coastal Ecosystem Processes presents many examples of remote sensing tools which could be used in an operational sense for the benefit of managment of variousl aspects of coastal ecosystems. This chapter presents the world's fir...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is entrusted with the science-based conservation and management of the living marine resources within federal waters of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Un...