MPA Publication - Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute

Marine Protected Areas Case Studies: What Works, Doesn’t and Why R. Appeldoorn - Chair
Soufriere Marine Management Association - Conflict Resolution and Participatory Planning: the Case of the Soufriere Marine Management Area
Woodley, J. - The Discovery Bay Fisheries Reserve, Jamaica
Howard, M. et al. - Community Based Development of Multiple-Use Marine Protected Areas: Promoting Stewardship and Sharing Responsibility for Conservation in the San Andres Archipelago, Colombia
Revelez González, M. B. and Camarena Luhrs - Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve
Delaney, J. - Community Capacity Building in the Designation of the Tortugas Ecological Reserve
Keller, B. - Monitoring Changes in the Fully Protected Zones of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Connectivity at Different Spatial Scales: Management Applications in MPA Design K. Lindeman - Chair
Christensen, J. et al. - Quantifying Reef Fish Habitat Utilization Patterns along a Cross-Shelf Gradient in Southwestern Puerto Rico
Beets, J. et al. - Connectivity Among Adjacent Inshore Habitats: Patterns and Movements of Grunts within a Small Protected Bay, St. John, US Virgin Islands
Appeldoorn, R. et al. - Habitat Connectivity on the Insular Platform of Old Providence-Santa Catalina, Colombia: Mechanisms, Limits and Ecological Consequences Relevent to Marine Reserve Design
Claro, R. and K. Lindeman - Use of Snapper and Grouper Spawning Aggregation Sites to Aid MPA Network Design in Cuba
García-Sais, J. and J. Ramirez-Mella - Offshore Dispersal of Caribbean Reef Fish Larvae: How Far is That?
Appeldoorn, R. and K. Lindeman - A Caribbean-Wide Survey of No-take Marine Reserves: Spatial Coverage, Administrative Attributes and Effectiveness
Sladek Nowlis, J. - Scientific Proof and Connectivity between Marine Reserves and Fishing Grounds
Munro, J. - Connectivity and the Evolution of Self-Recruitment in Marine Populations
Sale, P. and S. Ludsin - The Extent and Spatial Scale of Connectivity among Reef Fish Populations: Implications for Marine Protected Areas Designated for Fisheries Enhancement
Cowen, R. et al. - The Role of Long Distance Dispersal versus Local Retention in Repleneshing Marine Populations
Caselle, J. et al. - Local Retention and Recruitment of Marine Fishes: Effects on Design of MPA's

MPA Poster Session

Acosta, A. - Factors Influencing Fish Assemblages in Waters of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary: Lesson Learned for the Assessment of Marine Protected Areas
Bustamante. G. - Trying to Build Bridges between MPA Excellence and the World Heritage Sites Program: Preliminary Results of a Science-Based Approach to Propose new WHS of Marine Biodiversity in the Wider Caribbean
Cox, C - Size and Abundance of Caribbean Spiny Lobsters, Panulirus argus, after Five Years of Protection in a Large Marine Protected Area in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, USA
Glazer and Delgado - Estimating Queen Conch Home Ranges using Acoustic Telemetry: Implications for the Establishment of Marine Fishery Reserves
Gonzalez, A. and D. Torruco - Priority Conservation Areas on Cozumel Island, Mexico
Grober-Dunsmore, R. et al. - From the Land to the Sea: Applying the Principles of Landscape Ecology to the Design and Management of Marine Reserves
Hernández-Delgado, E. - Puerto Rican Marine Protected Areas: Why Paper Parks Doesn’t Work?
Pagan, F. et al. - Modeling Egg and Early Larval Dispersal in the Nearshore Waters of Southwestern Puerto Rico
Romero Paredes, A. and M.B. Reveles González - Green Power for Natural Protected Areas in Mexico: Focused on Conservation Improving the Quality of Life of It’s Habitants
Rudd, M. et al. - Developing a Spatially Explicit Agent-based Model of Queen Conch Distribution in a Marine Protected Area in the Turks & Caicos Islands
Toline - C.A. et al. - Assessment of Sea Turtle Nesting Habitat and its Incorporation into Marine Protected Areas for the Turks & Caicos Islands
Torruco, D. and A. Gonzalez - Rotation System for Fragile Areas at Punta Cancun in the West Coast Isla Mujeres, Punta Cancun, and Punta Nizuc National Marine Park

Capacity and Community Involvement in MPA Implementation and Orientation

P. McConney - Chair
McConney, P. - Introduction
Harroun, L - Keynote Address
Pomeroy, R. - Coastal Resource Co-management in the Caribbean
Campbell, J. - Challenges of Building a Co-management Institution for Management of the Protected Areas System in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Vellos, A. - Co-management of Laughing Bird Caye National Park, Belize
Robertson, L - Integrated Management of Marine Protected Areas in Grenada
Mahon, R. and M. Mascia- The Barbados (alias Folkstone) Marine Reserve: A Late Bloomer?
Vanzella-Khouri, A. - Capacity Building for Protected Areas Management: the CAMPAM approach
Griffis, R. - Building a U.S. System of Marine Protected Areas: Challenges and Opportunities
Panel Discussion
Closing Remarks