An Introduction to Artificial Reef Research and Development

摘要

The deployment of artificial reefs to improve fisheries and fishing has been occurring at least since the earliest records of human civilization (Seaman and Sprague 1991). Artificial reefs, especially as a topic of interest to the general and fishingpublic, environmental resource managers, and scientists, have received considerable interest since 1974 when the first international conference on artificial reefs was held (Clark et al. 1974). While there are many objectives being served by their use inthe aquatic environment, the unabashed purpose of artificial reef deployment has been to explore "the potential use of artificial reefs in fishery management" (Clark et al. 1974; see Bortone [2006, 2015] for a more complete review).