WHAP: West Hawai'i Aquarium Project

Publications

Papers

Tissot, Brian N. and L. E. Hallacher. 1999. Impacts of aquarium collectors on reef fishes in Kona, Hawai'i. Division of Aquatic Resources, Honolulu, HI. Technical Report. [html]

Tissot, B. N. 1999. Adaptive Management of Aquarium Fish Collecting in Hawaii. Live Reef Fish Information Bulletin 6: 16-19. [html] [PDF]

Tissot, B. N. and D. M. Brosnan. 2002. Long Term Coral Reef Monitoring Programs: Working Towards a Synthesis of Science, Management and Policy. In: Best, B. and R. Pomeroy, Relevant Findings from the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium: Implications for Coral Reef Management and Policy. USAID. [PDF] [Full document].

Tissot, B. N. and L. E. Hallacher. 2003. The effects of aquarium collectors on coral reef fishes in Hawaii. Conservation Biology. 17(6): 1759-1768 |html| |PDF|

Tissot, B. N. , Walsh, W. and L. E. Hallacher. 2004. Evaluating the effectiveness of a marine reserve network in Hawaii to increase the productivity of an aquarium fishery. Pacific Science 58(2): 175-188. |PDF|

Brown, Eric. Evelyn Cox, Paul Jokiel, , Ku‘ulei Rodgers, William Smith, Brian Tissot, Steve L. Coles, and Jonathan Hultquist^. 2004. Development of benthic sampling methods for the Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (CRAMP) in Hawai‘i. Pacific Science 58(2): 145-158. |PDF|

Capitini, C., B. N. Tissot, M. Carroll, W. Walsh and S. Peck. 2004. Aquarium fisheries management in west Hawaii: a dynamic conflict. Soc. Nat. Res. 17: 763-778. |PDF|

Tissot, B. N. 2005. Integral Marine Ecology: Community-based fishery management in Hawai`i. World Futures: the Journal of General Evolution. 61: 79-95. |PDF|

Abstracts from Scientific Conferences:

1999	Detecting impacts on reef fish in Kona: a model for community and interagency collaboration
1999	Evaluation of benthic sampling methods considered for the Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (CRAMP) in Hawai’i
1999	The Hawai'i Coral reef Assessment and Monitoring program (CRAMP)
1999	Detecting impacts to coral reef fishes in Hawai’i: an example of adaptive community-based management
1999	Detecting impacts to coral reef fishes in Hawai’i: an example of adaptive community-based management
2000	Adaptive community-based management of a marine reserve network in Hawai'i
2000	Long term coral reef monitoring programs: working towards a synthesis of science, management and policy
2001	Measuring the effectiveness of a marine reserve network in Hawai'i
2002	Evaluating the effectiveness of a marine reserve network in Hawai’i to increase the productivity of an aquarium fishery
2003	Size variation in aquarium fishes in an MPA network in Hawai’i
2003	Integral Ecology: a new tool for fishery management

All of the following documents are in Adobe PDF format

Final Reports:

Final Report 1998-1999 (with the Hawaii Coral Reef & Assessment program)
Final Report 1999-2000
Final Report 2000-2001
Final Report 2001-2002
Final Report 2002-2003
Final Legislative Report, 2004

Presentations:

Year Three Final Report PowerPoint Presentation (937k)
Link to HCRI 2001-2004 PowerPoint Presentations

Field Guide to Study Site:

Field guide (1.2 Mb)

Last update: 1/25/2005