Mapping fisheries for marine spatial planning: Gear-specific vessel monitoring system (VMS), marine conservation and offshore renewable energy

Marine Policy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 293-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria S. Campbell ◽  
Kilian M. Stehfest ◽  
Stephen C. Votier ◽  
Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning

scholarly journals Navigating a just and inclusive path towards sustainable oceans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Ocean Science ◽  
Ocean Governance ◽  
Blue Economy

The ocean is the next frontier for many conservation and development activities. Growth in marine protected areas, fisheries management, the blue economy, and marine spatial planning initiatives are occurring both within and beyond national jurisdictions. This mounting activity has coincided with increasing concerns about sustainability and international attention to ocean governance. Yet, despite growing concerns about exclusionary decision-making processes and social injustices, there remains inadequate attention to issues of social justice and inclusion in ocean science, management, governance and funding. In a rapidly changing and progressively busier ocean, we need to learn from past mistakes and identify ways to navigate a just and inclusive path towards sustainability. Proactive attention to inclusive decision-making and social justice is needed across key ocean policy realms including marine conservation, fisheries management, marine spatial planning, the blue economy, climate adaptation and global ocean governance for both ethical and instrumental reasons. This discussion paper aims to stimulate greater engagement with these critical topics. It is a call to action for ocean-focused researchers, policy-makers, managers, practitioners, and funders.

scholarly journals Assessing the effects of habitat patches ensuring propagule supply and different costs inclusion in marine spatial planning through multivariate analyses

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Appolloni
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Reserve Design ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Gulf Of Naples ◽  
Propagule Supply

Marine Protected Areas are considered key tools for conservation of coastal ecosystems. However, manyreserves are characterized by several problems mainly related to inadequate zonings that often do notprotect high biodiversity and propagule supply areas precluding, at the same time, economic importantzones for local interests. The Gulf of Naples is here employed as a study area to assess the effects ofinclusion of different conservation features and costs in reserve design process. In particular eight scenariosare developed using graph theory to identify propagule source patches and fishing and exploitationactivities as costs-in-use for local population. Scenarios elaborated by MARXAN, softwarecommonly used for marine conservation planning, are compared using multivariate analyses (MDS,PERMANOVA and PERMDISP) in order to assess input data having greatest effects on protected areasselection.MARXAN is heuristic software able to give a number of different correct results, all of them near to thebest solution. Its outputs show that the most important areas to be protected, in order to ensure longtermhabitat life and adequate propagule supply, are mainly located around the Gulf islands. In additionthrough statistical analyses it allowed us to prove that different choices on conservation featureslead to statistically different scenarios. The presence of propagule supply patches forces MARXAN toselect almost the same areas to protect decreasingly different MARXAN results and, thus, choices forreserves area selection.The multivariate analyses applied here to marine spatial planning proved to be very helpful allowing toidentify i) how different scenario input data affect MARXAN and ii) what features have to be taken intoaccount in study areas characterized by peculiar biological and economic interests.

scholarly journals Mapping inshore fishing activity using aerial, land, and vessel-based sighting information

2014 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Breen ◽  
Koen Vanstaen ◽  
Robert W. E. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Satellite Monitoring ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Fishing Activity ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
Spatial Differences ◽  
Fisheries Interactions ◽  
Enforcement Activity ◽  
Good Agreement

Abstract Information on the distribution and intensity of inshore fishing activity is needed to inform marine spatial planning and to assess fisheries interactions with the environment and other industries. Although fishing vessels under 15 m (overall length) account for 98.4% (2011 value) by the number of the European fleet, information on inshore fishing activity in Europe is very limited as there is no statutory satellite monitoring of smaller vessels (<15 m length before 2012, <12 m thereafter). Here, we develop, present, and apply a method which uses sightings-per-unit-effort (SPUE) estimates calculated from fisheries enforcement data to describe the distribution and intensity of inshore fishing activity off the coasts of England and Wales. For the larger inshore vessels, the SPUE estimates of activity were validated with vessel monitoring system (VMS) data and showed good agreement at the scale of analysis. Fishing activity estimates from SPUE are presented with an assessment of uncertainty, to account for spatial differences in enforcement activity. Our estimates of the distribution and intensity of inshore fishing activity and will complement estimates of offshore fishing activity based on VMS.

ASSESSMENT OF MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY STAKEHOLDER REQUIREMENTS IN NORTH SCOTLAND

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 29-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALASTOR COLEBY
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Tidal Power ◽  
Marine Renewable Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Industry

This paper describes two marine renewable energy stakeholder workshops in North Scotland that were held in March 2009 to discuss industry requirements for developing the Pentland Firth and Orkney waters between Scotland's north coast and the northern isles. This is an area of considerable interest for the development of renewable energy in Scotland. If the area is developed (mainly with wave and tidal power) it could make a significant contribution to both meeting government renewable energy targets and to the local economy. However, following accelerated applications by developers for site leasing, development of the area was delayed by uncertainty in environmental data shortages and subsequent slow progress in government formulation of marine spatial planning policy. In order to proceed, the marine renewable energy industry in Scotland required timely investment in regional infrastructure and a clear policy direction from government. Energy industry stakeholders who attended the workshops called for a single authority to take responsibility for both regulation and direct investment from government so that national renewable energy targets could be met in the required timeframe. Ultimately, government and policy makers were expected by industry to take responsibility for this with a central authority to decide and importantly communicate where and when marine turbines could be built. This required by government a proper understanding of the resources and not just the constraints in identifying the most suitable areas. Local knowledge in the community offered to dispel some of the uncertainty regarding the physical environment in a way that could also guide policy and perhaps accelerate marine spatial planning in designating workable areas for wave and tidal power.

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