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This paper argues that fishery workers' ecological knowledge can provide an important ingredient in the successful development of marine protected areas. This underutilized reservoir of knowledge can broaden our limited understanding of marine ecosystems and facilitate the design of effective marine protected areas intended both to preserve biodiversity and enhance the possibility for sustainable management of commercial fisheries. Fishery workers' taxonomies and toponyms can be effectively incorporated into interpretation centres to increase the cultural salience of marine protected areas for both coastal communities and tourists. Cooperation of local communities with the development of marine protected areas and the effectiveness of management regimes should also be enhanced.

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The current fisheries crisis in Canada demands innovative solutions to a complex environmental and social problem. Marine protected areas (MPAs) of various types should be used together with other necessary measures to ensure that we can never again decimate any fishery. There are many obvious roles for marine protected areas in supporting sustainable fisheries, including the preservation of stock biomass, population structure, genetic variability, habitat, food webs, species diversity, productivity, spawning areas, nursery grounds and migratory corridors. Marine protected areas are essential as controls and as undisturbed sites for scientific research. They can also be used to support the reorganization of fisheries so that they are more socially responsible, by protecting fishing grounds of particular importance to the labour-intensive, inshore fishing sector. Further roles are to increase public support for and compliance with conservation measures through public education. For the potential of MPAs to be realized, however, there must be a conscious and effective inclusion of a wide range of stakeholders in decision-making, and attention to both the special needs of coastal communities and the opportunities to learn from fishworkers.

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