Highlights•Some six million people depend on coral reef fisheries for their livelihood.•Efforts
to reduce dependence on coral reef fisheries often result in failure or perverse …

Coral reef fishes differ in their intrinsic vulnerability to fishing and rates of population
recovery after cessation of fishing. We reviewed life history-based predictions about the …

Overfishing and habitat destruction due to local and global threats are undermining
fisheries, biodiversity, and the long-term sustainability of tropical marine ecosystems …

Community-based management and co-management are mainstream approaches to
marine conservation and sustainable resource management. In the tropical Pacific, these …

Understanding how social-ecological systems are and can be resilient to climate change is
one of the world's most crucial problems today. It requires knowledge at local and global …

Spatial marine closures are widely employed and advocated for marine resource
management and conservation. Temporal, non-permanent, rotational or periodically …

No‐take marine reserves are increasingly popular tools for conservation and fisheries
management. While much attention has been paid to evaluating the effects of design …

Overview Eight years of octopus fishery records from southwest Madagascar reveal
significant positive impacts from 36 periodic closures on:(a) fishery catches and (b) village …

Identifying the most sensitive indicators to changes in fishing pressure is important for
accurately detecting impacts. Biomass is thought to be more sensitive than abundance and …

Periodically harvested closures (PHCs) have become the most common form of spatial
management in Melanesia. Despite their popularity, their effectiveness to sustain local fish …