scientific Reports on Marine Protected Areas and Marine Reserves

The following reports offer an overview of the issues affecting America’s oceans:

• America’s Living Oceans: Charting a Course for Sea Change. Summary Report. Recommendations for a New Ocean Policy. Pew Ocean Commission. May 2003
• Preliminary Report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy Governor’s Draft, Washington, D.C. April 2004

The following reports offer more detailed information on marine protected areas and marine reserves:

• National Research Council. 2001. Marine Protected Areas: Tools for Sustaining Ecosystems.
• National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. 2001. Scientific Consensus on Marine Reserves and Marine Protected Areas.
• Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO). 2002. The Science of Marine Reserves.
• Palumbi, S.R. 2002. Marine Reserves: A Tool for Ecosystem Management and Conservation. Pew Oceans Commission, Arlington, Virginia.