Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas
Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor environmental condition with deteriorating trends. Despite several success stories, European policies for marine conservation fall...
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Stelios Katsanevakis Marta Coll Simonetta Fraschetti Simonetta Fraschetti Sylvaine Giakoumi David Goldsborough Vesna Mačić Peter Mackelworth Peter Mackelworth Gil Rilov Vanessa Stelzenmüller Paolo G. Albano Amanda E. Bates Stanislao Bevilacqua Stanislao Bevilacqua Elena Gissi Virgilio Hermoso Antonios D. Mazaris Cristina Pita Valentina Rossi Yael Teff-Seker Katherine Yates Katherine Yates |
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Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas |
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Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas |
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Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas |
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Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor environmental condition with deteriorating trends. Despite several success stories, European policies for marine conservation fall short of being effective. Acknowledging the challenges for marine conservation, a 4-year multi-national network, MarCons, supported collaborative marine conservation efforts to bridge the gap between science, management and policy, aiming to contribute in reversing present negative trends. By consolidating a large network of more than 100 scientists from 26 countries, and conducting a series of workshops over 4 years (2016–2020), MarCons analyzed challenges, opportunities and obstacles for advancing marine conservation in the European and contiguous seas. Here, we synthesize the major issues that emerged from this analysis and make 12 key recommendations for policy makers, marine managers, and researchers. To increase the effectiveness of marine conservation planning, we recommend (1) designing coherent networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the framework of marine spatial planning (MSP) and applying systematic conservation planning principles, including re-evaluation of existing management zones, (2) designing MPA networks within a broader transboundary planning framework, and (3) implementing integrated land-freshwater-sea approaches. To address inadequate or poorly informed management, we recommend (4) developing and implementing adaptive management plans in all sites of the Natura 2000 European conservation network and revising the Natura 2000 framework, (5) embedding and implementing cumulative effects assessments into a risk management process and making them operational, and (6) promoting actions to reach ‘good environmental status’ in all European waters. To account for global change in conservation planning and management, we further recommend (7) developing conservation strategies to address the impacts of global change, for example identifying climate-change refugia as high priority conservation areas, and (8) incorporating biological invasions in conservation plans and prioritizing management actions to control invasive species. Finally, to improve current practices that may compromise the effectiveness of conservation actions, we recommend (9) reinforcing the collection of high-quality open-access data, (10) improving mechanisms for public participation in MPA planning and management, (11) prioritizing conservation goals in full collaboration with stakeholders, and (12) addressing gender inequality in marine sciences and conservation. |
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doaj-04bba481d4e14f52b1fd01dc7823a18e2020-11-25T03:56:46ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452020-10-01710.3389/fmars.2020.565968565968Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous SeasStelios Katsanevakis0Marta Coll1Simonetta Fraschetti2Simonetta Fraschetti3Sylvaine Giakoumi4David Goldsborough5Vesna Mačić6Peter Mackelworth7Peter Mackelworth8Gil Rilov9Vanessa Stelzenmüller10Paolo G. Albano11Amanda E. Bates12Stanislao Bevilacqua13Stanislao Bevilacqua14Elena Gissi15Virgilio Hermoso16Antonios D. Mazaris17Cristina Pita18Valentina Rossi19Yael Teff-Seker20Katherine Yates21Katherine Yates22Department of Marine Sciences, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, GreeceInstitute of Marine Science, ICM-CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Ecopath International Initiative, Barcelona, SpainStazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Università Federico II di Napoli, Naples, ItalyCoNISMa, Rome, ItalyCentre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaVan Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, NetherlandsInstitute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro, Kotor, MontenegroBlue World Institute of Marine Research & Conservation, Veli Lošinj, CroatiaInstitute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia0National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel1Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Bremerhaven, Germany2Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria3Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, CanadaCoNISMa, Rome, Italy4Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy5IUAV University of Venice, Venice, Italy6Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Lleida, Spain7Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece8CESAM – Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal9Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development, National Research Council, Naples, Italy0Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, IsraelCentre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia1School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester, United KingdomLike most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor environmental condition with deteriorating trends. Despite several success stories, European policies for marine conservation fall short of being effective. Acknowledging the challenges for marine conservation, a 4-year multi-national network, MarCons, supported collaborative marine conservation efforts to bridge the gap between science, management and policy, aiming to contribute in reversing present negative trends. By consolidating a large network of more than 100 scientists from 26 countries, and conducting a series of workshops over 4 years (2016–2020), MarCons analyzed challenges, opportunities and obstacles for advancing marine conservation in the European and contiguous seas. Here, we synthesize the major issues that emerged from this analysis and make 12 key recommendations for policy makers, marine managers, and researchers. To increase the effectiveness of marine conservation planning, we recommend (1) designing coherent networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the framework of marine spatial planning (MSP) and applying systematic conservation planning principles, including re-evaluation of existing management zones, (2) designing MPA networks within a broader transboundary planning framework, and (3) implementing integrated land-freshwater-sea approaches. To address inadequate or poorly informed management, we recommend (4) developing and implementing adaptive management plans in all sites of the Natura 2000 European conservation network and revising the Natura 2000 framework, (5) embedding and implementing cumulative effects assessments into a risk management process and making them operational, and (6) promoting actions to reach ‘good environmental status’ in all European waters. To account for global change in conservation planning and management, we further recommend (7) developing conservation strategies to address the impacts of global change, for example identifying climate-change refugia as high priority conservation areas, and (8) incorporating biological invasions in conservation plans and prioritizing management actions to control invasive species. Finally, to improve current practices that may compromise the effectiveness of conservation actions, we recommend (9) reinforcing the collection of high-quality open-access data, (10) improving mechanisms for public participation in MPA planning and management, (11) prioritizing conservation goals in full collaboration with stakeholders, and (12) addressing gender inequality in marine sciences and conservation.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.565968/fullNatura 2000MPAstransboundary collaborationglobal changeinvasive speciescumulative impact assessment |