Research Article

Do Not Stop: The Importance of Seamless Monitoring and Enforcement in an Indonesian Marine Protected Area

Figure 1

Number of Plectropomus areolatus and Epinephelus fuscoguttatus recorded at fish spawning aggregation sites at full moon in Komodo National Park from March 1998 to December 2009. Only the main moon phase for fish aggregations is shown in graphs. Enforcement was at its lowest in a decade from 2004 to 2005, and no data were collected between April 2003 to August 2005. Site numbers are included in parentheses (S7 = Site 7 and S8 = Site 8). Note the differences in scale on the .
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(a) P. areolatus (S7)
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(b) P. areolatus (S8)
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(c) E. fuscoguttatus (S7)
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(d) E. fuscoguttatus (S8)