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Maritime Spatial Planning
Dr. Anthony Grehan, NUI, Galway, Ireland
4th Atlantic Stakeholder Platform Conference, Glasgow, 8th November 2017
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Blue GrowthEssential components to provide legal certainty and security for the blue economy include:
• marine knowledge with improved access to information about the sea;
• maritime spatial planning to ensure an efficient and sustainable management of activities at sea;
• sea basin strategies to facilitate transboundary measures and to foster cooperation between countries, e.g. in the Atlantic Ocean
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• EBM is the balancing of human activities and environmental stewardship in a multiple-use context (Smith et al. 2017).
• MSP is a key tool for the implementation of ecosystem based management both at basin and regional/local scale.
Ecosystem based management
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Environmental Sustainability - Europe
• Habitats Directive• Natura 2000 marine protected areas
• Common Fisheries Policy• Fisheries closures
• Marine Strategy Framework Directive • Good Environment Status (GES) by 2020
• EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020• Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem Goods and Services
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Maritime Spatial Planning
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,One Ring to bring them all,
and in the darkness bind them
Tolkien
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EU Maritime Spatial Planning Directive
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Global Responsibilities
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IOC/DG Mare MSP Joint Roadmap 2017
The “Joint Roadmap to Accelerate MSP processes worldwide” is a joint commitment of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of the European Commission (DG MARE). The Roadmap will contribute to the definition of a global vision and role for MSP as part of the implementation of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, especially regarding SDG 14 at the national and international levels.
UN BBNJ Prep Comm
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• Reduce sectoral conflicts, • Improve investment environment, • Increase coordination between countries • Balance development activities and
environmental protection
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Case studies Project Partners
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www.eu-atlas.org MESMA (Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas) generic spatial planning framework
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Test new ‘Blue Growth’ scenarios
• For a given area – determine the likely impact of adding a new Blue Growth activity or expanding an existing activity in terms of impact on existing activities and potential to add to cumulative environmental impacts.
How can we protect vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) from human pressures while minimising conflicts with industry?
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Bottom trawl fishing effort 2007-2010Electronic logbook (ELB) data, 150 m resolution
High
Low
Effort
MPACWC habitat
64.0 N
63.5 N
14.0 W 13.0 W15.0 W
Burgos and Ragnarsson, 2012
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Sharing high resolution fisheries data – a win-win
Inter-RAC Workshop on Management of Deep Sea Species, Edinburgh, 16th May, 2013
Accurate evaluation of the overlap between fishing and vulnerable benthic habitats
•Identification of areas with low impacts by bottom fishing gears
• Reduction of conflicts with fishers by optimizing the design of marine protected areas.
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Fisheries impact risk assessment (an example)
• Apply a seabed risk categorisation (A. Kenny) to Irish deep-water fishable area
• Make use of Lophelia predicted habitat map and vessel monitoring data
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Seabed risk categorisation
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Map 1: True distribution vs. potential distribution(model includes ALL Lopheliaobservations,Living and dead, reef and solitary)
The grid shows the model study area (based on predictions of the global model (Davies & Guinotte, 2011) Rockall Trough and very deep areas were excluded)Area: 202,000km2Grid cells (10km2): 2020
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Map 2:
Presence of high percentage (70%) fishing activity in 10 x 10km grid cells (CEFAS)
The active fishing area is much smaller than the total fishable area
Issue for defining the fishing footprint but nb. A single exploratory trawl can do major damage to a VME
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Map 3:
Risk assessment based on the categories 1, 2 and 5
Black/Red is high riskOrange/yellow is medium risk
Green is low risk
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Climate Change
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WP8: Open Science Resources for Stakeholders
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Advisory BoardJake Rice, DFOScientist Emeritus
Science Policy Panel
Atlas is committed to stakeholder engagement
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Coordination: J Murray Roberts [email protected] Management: Katherine [email protected] & Press: Claudia [email protected]
Many thanks!
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