Do Not Stop: The Importance of Seamless Monitoring and Enforcement in an Indonesian Marine Protected Area
Figure 2
Graphs showing the changes in abundance of grouper and Napoleon wrasse species in Komodo National Park at sites monitored from 1998 to 2003 () and from 1998 to 2006 (). Enforcement was at its lowest in a decade from 2004 to 2005. Note the differences in scale on the . S1–S2 (Sites 1–Sites 8) refers to different sites. Grey bars: full moon data, lines: new moon data. Only the most dominant moon phase is presented in graphs, where it was obvious from the data. Overall percentage declines for target species before and the period of reduced enforcement were Plectropomus areolatus (76.9%), Ephinephelus fuscoguttatus (6.9%), P. leopardus (84.3%), P. oligocanthus (66.9%), Cheilinus undulatus (62.1%), Variola louti (79.5%), Cromileptis altivelis (65.2%), P. laevis (33.3%), and E. polyphekadion (46.2%).
