Area-Based Management Tools and Marine Fisheries

Dr Serge Michel Garcia is a biological oceanographer at the University of Aix-Marseille (France), specializing in fishery science, stock assessment, fishery management and governance, with a long experience in developing countries and regional fishery organizations. He authored, co-authored or directed publications on fisheries management (2009), MPAs and fisheries (2013), and on the governance of marine fisheries and biodiversity conservation (2014). His additional work has also touched upon world fishery resources and the environmental aspects of fisheries.

Dr Jake Rice has more than 270 publications at the interface of science and policy for living resource conservation and sustainable use, covering many aspects of the ecosystem approach, risk assessment, and integrated management. This work has included investigation of spatial management tools, objective methods for choosing ecosystem indicators, setting ecologically based reference levels, and strategies for conducting ecosystem assessments across ecosystem processes, industry sectors, and ecological, social, and economic aspects of policy and management.