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

Table 1

The mean size (cm) of three species of grouper recorded in different years in Komodo National Park. Only years with 12 months of data are shown. The number of fish measured can be found in Supplementary Materials. Asterisks indicate changes between the periods before (1998–2002) and after (2005–2007) the lapse of enforcement that were significant.

Species	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2005	2006	2007
P. areolatus*	53.2	49.3	50.0	49.9	48.4	47.7	47.6	44.9
E. fuscoguttatus	68.8	64.8	66.7	69.6	67.1	65.9	65.3	69.1
E. polyphekadion	47.8	35.6	39.4	42.5	44.6	42.1	46.0	39.0
P. leopardus	43.6	41.4	40.7	40.4	39.8	37.1	39.1
P. laevis	78.1	86.0	97.0	97.4	85.4	66.8	74.8
P. oligacanthus*	44.3	43.4	42.0	42.6	42.2	38.6	40.4
V. louti	42.6	36.0	37.9	39.0	38.6	36.0	45.5
C. altivelis*	42.5	42.5	43.7	45.0	44.5	40.1	36.0
C. undulates	77.6	77.7	93.3	93.6	88.6	86.8	75.4