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Diver Control of Long-spined Sea Urchin in Tasmania

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posted on 2023-05-22, 22:51 authored by John KeaneJohn Keane, Scott LingScott Ling
An urchin fishery was established to provide financial incentives to control a range-extending and destructive urchin species.

Spatially discrete subsidies and modified harvesting strategies were used to manage and optimise harvests efforts, with the long-term aims of facilitating industry stability and natural kelp recovery.

History

Publication title

Kelp Restoration Guidebook: Lessons Learned from Kelp Projects Around the World

Editors

AM Eger, C Layton, TA McHugh, M Gleason and N Eddy

Pagination

64-66

Department/School

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

Publisher

The Nature Conservancy

Place of publication

Sacramento, CA, USA

Extent

11

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Control of pests, diseases and exotic species in marine environments; Rehabilitation or conservation of marine environments

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    Keywords

    sea urchinpest managementkelp restoration

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