Socioeconomic Impacts of Marine Reserves: Tortugas Ecological Reserve and Channel Islands Marine Reserve

CORE has the lead role in all socioeconomic aspects of the process to establish marine reserves in National Marine Sanctuaries. CORE's role in the marine reserve process includes providing background socioeconomic information to establish a socioeconomic framework for the study area, collecting data needed to analyze impacts from reserve alternatives, assisting working groups in designing reserve alternatives, and providing objective analyses of reserve alternatives being considered.