Publications by authors named "Leena Riekkola"
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a commonly used management tool to safeguard marine life from anthropogenic impacts, yet their efficacy often remains untested. Evaluating how highly dynamic marine species use static MPAs is challenging but becoming more feasible with the advancement of telemetry data. Here, we focus on southern right whales (Eubalaena australis, SRWs) in the waters off Aotearoa/New Zealand, which declined from 30,000 whales to fewer than 40 mature females due to whaling.
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- Understanding the dynamics of fishing fleets is essential for ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM), focusing on both sustainability of target species and minimizing impacts on habitats and non-target species.
- Increased large whale entanglements in Dungeness crab gear highlight the urgent need to address whale-fishery interactions on the U.S. West Coast.
- Our modeling of crab fishing patterns in Oregon and Washington identified consistent trends influenced by various economic, environmental, and social factors, emphasizing the importance of integrating fisheries behavior into management strategies.
Conservation planning traditionally relies upon static reserves; however, there is increasing emphasis on dynamic management (DM) strategies that are flexible in space and time. Due to its novelty, DM lacks best practices to guide design and implementation. We assessed the effect of planning unit size in a DM tool designed to reduce entanglement of protected whales in vertical ropes of surface buoys attached to crab traps in the lucrative U.
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