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Brody, Samuel D.. The Gulf of Maine Marine Protected Areas Project. Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment. August 1998. 130 pp.

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly being considered important tools for promoting the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. MPAs have become widely accepted as places to protect, study, and wisely utilize important parts of the marine realm. Today, they offer innovative solutions to some of the most pressing environmental problems and have become flagships of marine conservation programs in many parts of the world. Marine protected areas had been identified as an important tool for addressing many of the ecological and socioeconomic problems contributing to the decline of the Gulf of Maine ecosystem. This resource documents the evaluation of marine protected areas in the Gulf, in the following sections: an evaluation of legal and institutional mechanisms for establishing MPAs in the Gulf of Maine; evaluating the role of site selection criteria for MPAs in the Gulf of Maine; and an evaluation of the establishment processes for MPAs in the Gulf of Maine: understanding the role of community involvement and public participation. An important section also included in this resource is the final conclusions and recommendations produced from this study.

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