Viana, Daniel F. and Gill, David and Zvoleff, Alex and Krueck, Nils C. and Mason, Jessica Zamborain and Free, Christopher M. and Shepon, Alon and Grieco, Dana and Schmidhuber, Josef and Mascia, Michael B. and Golden, Christopher D. (2024) Sustainable-use marine protected areas to improve human nutrition. Nature Communications, 15 (7716). p. 10. ISSN 2041-1723
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Coral reef fisheries are a vital source of nutrients for thousands of nutritionally vulnerable coastal communities around the world. Marine protected areas are regions of the ocean designed to preserve or rehabilitate marine ecosystems and thereby increase reef fish biomass. Here, we evaluate the potential effects of expanding a subset of marine protected areas that allow some level of fishing within their borders (sustainable-use MPAs) to improve the nutrition of coastal communities. We estimate that, depending on site characteristics, expanding sustainable-use MPAs could increase catch by up to 20%, which could help prevent 0.3-2.85 million cases of inadequate micronutrient intake in coral reef nations. Our study highlights the potential add-on nutritional benefits of expanding sustainable-use MPAs in coral reef regions and pinpoints locations with the greatest potential to reduce inadequate micronutrient intake level. These findings provide critical knowledge given international momentum to cover 30% of the ocean with MPAs by 2030 and eradicate malnutrition in all its forms.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Sustainable Use, Marine Protected Areas, Coral Reef, Nutrients, Biomass, Coastal Communities, Marine Ecosystems |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2025 10:54 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jun 2025 10:54 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/22170 |
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