Living Oceans Society MPA Reports

A Preliminary Snapshot of Stakeholder Views on Oceans Issues and Marine Use Planning Throughout the PNCIMA Region (2007)
Living Oceans Society and the David Suzuki Foundation.

Conservation Utility Analysis Review Meeting (2006)
Living Oceans Society and World Wildlife Fund Canada.

Investing in a Future for the B.C. Coast (2004)
Brochure describing our MPA analysis for B.C. (except the Strait of Georgia).

Marine Ecosystem Spatial Analysis of B.C. (2003)
Explanation of our B.C. marine protected area analysis done for the Coast Information Team.

Full CIT Report (2003)
This report focuses on the terrestrial aspects of the Coast Information Team. For those interested in the marine analysis, see the excerpted and revised marine report above.

Modelling a Network of Marine Protected Areas in the Central Coast of B.C. (2002)
Central Coast analysis. The methodology was later expanded to include most of B.C. (see report immediately above).
Separate download: Appendix 4 (maps)

Benthic Complexity: An Indicator of Species Richness

Submission re: the Proposed DFO Rockfish Conservation Areas (2005)

Submission re: the Proposed DFO Rockfish Conservation Areas (2003)

Other MPA Journal Articles/Reports

BC Seafood Alliance, Archipelago Marine Research Group and the BC Ministry of Agriculture,
Food and Fisheries. 2001. Progress Towards Environmental Sustainability in BC’s
Seafood Sector. Report Prepared for the BC Seafood Summit.

Blythe-Skyrme, Robert E. et al. 2006. Conservation Benefits of Temperate Marine Protected
Areas. Journal of Conservation Biology. 20(3):811-820.

Canessa, Rosaline and Lunn, Kristin. 2005. Developing and Evaluating Indicators to Measure the
Effectiveness of Coastal and Marine Protected Areas on Canada’s Pacific Coast. Presented at the
North America Marine Protected Ares Network Sympsium. Loreto. Mexico. March 2005.

Coté, François and Finney, Jessica. 2006. Marine Protected Areas: An Essential Element of the
Fisheries Management Toolbox. Science and Technology Division. Library of Parliament. PRB 06-16E

Evans, S.M.J., Glen Jamieson, Jeff Ardron, Michelle Patteson and Sabine Jessen. 2004.
Evaluation of Site Selection Methodologies for use in Marine Protected Area Network
Design. Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat. Research Document 2004/082

Day, J. 2002. Zoning: Lessons from the Great Barrier Marine Park.Ocean and Coastal
Management. (45):139–156

Day, John and Roff, John. 2000. Planning for Representative Marine Protected Areas: A
Framework for Canada’s Oceans. World Wildlife Fund.

Edgar, Graham J. et al. 2008. Key Biodiversity Areas as Globally Significant Target Sites for the
Conservation of Marine Biological Diversity. Journal of Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater
Ecosystems. 18:969-983

Fernandes et al. 2005. Establishing Representative No-Take Areas in the Great Barrier Reef:
Large-Scale Implementation of Theory on Marine Protected Areas. Journal of Conservation Biology.
19(6): 1733-1744.

Guidetti, Paolo. 2006. Potential of Marine Reserves to Cause Community-Wide Changes Beyond
Their Boundaries. Journal of Conservation Biology. 21(2):540-545.

Hamilton, Chris and Wilson, Ross. No date provided. Marine Protected Areas and Aboriginal
People in British Columbia: From Conflict to Collaborative Management.

Hyrenbach, D., Karin A. Forney and Paul K. Dayton. 2000. Marine Protected Areas and Ocean Basin
Management. Journal of Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 10: 437-458

IUCN World Comission on Protected Areas (IUCN-WCPA). 2008. Establishing Resilient Marine Protected Area
Networks – Making It Happen. Washington, D.C.: IUCN-WCPA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and The Nature Conservancy. 188 p.

Jamieson, Glen S. and Levings, Colin O. 2001. Marine protected areas in Canada: implications for both
conservation and management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, Vol. 58, pp. 138-56.

Kelleher, G. 1999. Guidelines for Marine Protected Areas. Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series
No. 3. Gland and Cambridge: IUCN.

Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans. 2007. The Science of Marine Reserves.

Spalding, Mark D., Luch Fish and Louisa J. Wood. 2008. Toward Representative Protection of the World’s
Coasts and Oceans. Wiley Periodicals. Conservation Letters 00 (2008) 1-10.

Tunnicliffe, Verena and Thomson, R. 1999. The Endeavour Hot Vents Area: A Pilot Marine Protected Area
In Canada’s Pacific Ocean. Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Oceans Background Report.

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. 2003. Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries.
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Zacharias, Mark A. and Roff, John, C. 2000. A Hierarchical Ecological Approach to Conserving Marine
Biodiversity. Journal of Conservation Biology.14(5): Essays