"In response for concerns about declining regional trends in coral reef habitats and multispecies reef fish stocks, 151 nm2 (518 km2) of 'no take' ecological reserves and natural research areas were designated in Florida's Dry Tortugas by the Florida Keys...

Simulation and empirical analyses were conducted to evaluate the utility and robustness of average length (Lbar) of animals in the exploited population as an estimator of fishing mortality (F), and therefore as an indicator of exploitation status for Flor...

"In a series of synoptic research cruises including 4000 research dives, we surveyed reef-fish populations and habitats before and 3 yrs after 2001 implementation of no-take marine reserves covering approximately 566 km2 in the Dry Tortugas, Florida. Spec...

This presentation, entitled "Community-based analysis of reef fish habitat use in the Florida Keys", was given at the American Fisheries Society Symposium 50 - Linking estuarine-marine habitats in Bethesda, Maryland in 2007.

"Management agencies have increasingly relied on size limits, daily bag or trip limits, quotas, and seasonal closures to manage fishing in recreational and commercial fisheries. Another trend is to establish aquatic protected areas, including no-take rese...

"We examine the influence of reserve size and boundary length on the relative rate of fish density change in reserves versus fished reference reefs for three exploitable-sized reef fish categories: (1) combined fish (34 species of Haemulidae, Lutjanidae, ...

Two aquatic areas, covering approximately 22 percent (40 km super(2)) of the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge (MIWR), were closed to fishing beginning in 1962 for security of the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This action created the first...