Three-Year Closure of Fishing Seasons as a Management Tool for the Omani Abalone, Haliotis mariae, Fishery in the Sultanate of Oman

Table 1

Average density (ind.m^-2) of H. mariae in the studied areas during underwater surveys from 2009 to 2021.

Area	Year
	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2017	2019	2020	2021
Mirbat	0.12 (0.04)	0.35 (0.12)	0.45 (0.20)	0.17 (0.05)	0.17 (0.05)	0.19 (0.05)	0.25 (0.05)	0.11 (0.02)	0.10 (0.02)	0.06 (0.01)	0.12 (0.03)
Sadah	0.16 (0.06)	0.42 (0.16)	0.65 (0.13)	0.50 (0.13)	0.30 (0.03)	0.36 (0.04)	0.34 (0.05)	0.16 (0.03)	0.27 (0.07)	0.19 (0.04)	0.28 (0.06)
Hadbin	0.22 (0.07)	0.41 (0.11)	0.55 (0.13)	0.47 (0.10)	0.21 (0.04)	0.22 (0.05)	0.18 (0.04)	0.13 (0.04)	0.24 (0.04)	0.10 (0.02)	0.21 (0.04)
Hasik	0.05 (0.02)	0.12 (0.04)	0.31 (0.10)	0.18 (0.08)	0.04 (0.01)	0.09 (0.02)	0.04 (0.01)	0.03 (0.01)	0.07 (0.02)	0.04 (0.01)	0.05 (0.01)
Average	0.14 (0.02)	0.33 (0.05)	0.49 (0.07)	0.33 (0.04)	0.18 (0.02)	0.21 (0.02)	0.20 (0.02)	0.10 (0.01)	0.17 (0.02)	0.10 (0.01)	0.17 (0.02)

Above line is the average value; the standard error in brackets.