This study examines the economic impacts of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM) expansion on the Hawaii longline fishery, using difference-in-differences models with fixed effects.
Recent noncompliance research has focused on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fisheries and capacity shortfalls in marine protected areas (MPAs), but less work has assessed other aspects of noncompliance.
This study establishes the Mariana Archipelago as a breeding area for endangered western North Pacific humpback whales, contributing to research and conservation efforts to identify all associated breeding grounds and potential threats in those locations.
Some researchers have suggested that corals living in deeper reefs may escape heat stress experienced by shallow corals; however, results of analyzing in situ temperature records suggest otherwise.
An important control study that documents the natural responses of coral reef fishes to SCUBA bubbles generated by in-situ surveys conducted in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM).
We developed a spatially explicit simulation model to better understand how to develop spatial stock assessment models for the management of fisheries.
Here we develop a modelling framework to explore fish populations that could exhibit non-stationary behaviour and then evaluate the consequences on the future risk of overexploitation for three Pacific billfish stocks.
We document three new records of coastal fish species for the Hawaiian Islands, hypothesize their origin, and find no evidence that these species have established populations in the Hawaiian Islands.
Here, we analyze our cumulative experience with translocation of Hawaiian monk seals in response to it's declining demographic. Outcomes suggest that in most cases the translocations were successful.