Spatial Search and Fishing Location Choice: Methodological Challenges of Empirical Modeling

Recent work in ecology emphasized the spatial patchiness of marine resources. Fish and shellfish populations often occur in clumps or discrete patches of habitat with different population levels and dynamics in each patch. Patches are linked through a set of complex biological and oceanographic factors. This new view has given rise to spatial marine management proposals, including permanent marine reserves and rotating spatial closures. Reserve proposals are particularly popular among ecologists because closed areas can presumably augment the biomass in areas that were overharvested due to stochas-

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