Zusammenfassung der Ressource
MPA's
- USES OF MARINE
ENVIRONMENT
- Use of marine environment
increasing as Earth's finite
resources are used up on land
- Oil and
Gas,
Fishing,
Aggregates,
Wind
Farms,
Cables,
Transport,
Disposal of
Waste,
Recreation
- Some areas used more than others
- Can still fish in MPA's, the term
means different things to
different people
- Even a "no take zone" usually
means that just bottom
trawling is not allowed
- MANAGEMENT
OF MARINE
ENVIRONMENT
- Convention of
Biological Diversity
(CBD) - UKBAP (10%)
OSPAR Convention
(30%) EC Habitats and
Birds Directives
NATURA zoo Network,
SACS
- Marine and Coastal Access Act -
establishment of MCZ's
- Spacial Area Management Networks
- "Enables"
designation of
MPA's, not
requires
- Every one of these calls for protected areas
- Marine
management
organisation of
UK
- CBD and OSPAR both
recommend to establish by
2020 a network or system of
MPA'S
- World Summit
of Sustainable
Development
- agreed to establish
MPA's
representative
networks - protect
examples of
everything not just
endangered things
- Suggested network of
MPA's in North Sea -
heavily used area
- Need an ecologically coherent
and representative network of
MPA's
- Important that areas are connected,
populations not isolated.
- Recommended that 30% of UK's EEZ
established as no take reserves closed
to commercial fishing
- This will conserve 70% of
species - using species
accumulation curves
- This will maintain
ecosystem function -
some niches
redundant, if a
dominant species is
lost another will take
its place
- Will still lose
rare species,
what is the
conservation
objective?
- IUCN (World
Conservation Union)
sets definition
- Basically an area of
sea that has some
protection
- Divides protected areas into
6 types offering different
levels of protection. Depends
on objectives