Four. Marine Protected Areas, Marine Spatial Planning, and the Resilience of Marine Ecosystems

2014 ◽  
pp. 98-141
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Marine Ecosystems ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning

Mind the gap: Addressing the shortcomings of marine protected areas through large scale marine spatial planning

Marine Policy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tundi Agardy ◽  
Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara ◽  
Patrick Christie
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning

Viet Nam’s National System of Marine Protected Areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-98
Author(s):  
Diep Ngoc Vo
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
State Practice ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Legislative Framework

In 2001, Viet Nam’s first mpa was established in Hòn Mun Island (Nha Trang). In 2010, a National mpa System Plan was officially adopted with a vision to establish 16 mpas by 2020. With an aim to report Viet Nam’s state practice concerning mpas, this article is divided into three parts. The first section will analyze the relevant legal framework on mpas, addressing the national jurisdictional basis for area-protection, authorities responsible for designating protected areas, administrative process and interaction of authorities responsible for activities within mpas. The second section will scrutinize each individual mpa project implemented in Viet Nam. The last part is an assessment of the progress of marine protection adopting marine spatial planning approach in Viet Nam by evaluating challenges and opportunities of the contemporary mpa system, identifying the gaps between legislative framework and practice, as well as the ways forward.

scholarly journals Marine nature conservation and conflicts with fisheries

AMBIO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 1328-1340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjell Grip ◽  
Sven Blomqvist
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Management Tools

AbstractGlobally, conflicts between marine nature conservation and fishery interests are common and increasing, and there is often a glaring lack of dialogue between stakeholders representing these two interests. There is a need for a stronger and enforced coordination between fishing and conservation authorities when establishing marine protected areas for conservation purposes. We propose that an appropriate instrument for such coordination is a broad ecosystem-based marine spatial planning procedure, representing neither nature conservation nor fishery. Strategic environmental assessment for plans and programmes and environmental impact assessment for projects are commonly used tools for assessing the environmental impacts of different human activities, but are seldom used for evaluating the environmental effects of capture fisheries. The diversity of fisheries and the drastic effects of some fisheries on the environment are strong arguments for introducing these procedures as valuable supplements to existing fisheries assessment and management tools and able to provide relevant environmental information for an overall marine spatial planning process. Marine protected areas for nature conservation and for protection of fisheries have different objectives. Therefore, the legal procedure when establishing marine protected areas should depend on whether they are established for nature conservation purposes or as a fisheries resource management tool. Fishing in a marine protected area for conservation purpose should be regulated according to conservation law. Also, we argue that marine protected areas for conservation purposes, in the highest protection category, should primarily be established as fully protected marine national parks and marine reserves.

scholarly journals Assessing fishery footprints and the trade-offs between landings value, habitat sensitivity, and fishing impacts to inform marine spatial planning and an ecosystem approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 1053-1063 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Jennings ◽  
J. Lee ◽  
J. G. Hiddink
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Fishing Effort ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Fishing Impacts

Abstract Jennings, S., Lee, J., and Hiddink, J. G. 2012. Assessing fishery footprints and the trade-offs between landings value, habitat sensitivity, and fishing impacts to inform marine spatial planning and an ecosystem approach. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 1053–1063. European and national policy commitments require further integration of fisheries and environmental management. We measured fishery footprints and assessed trade-offs between landings value, habitat sensitivity, and beam trawling impacts in UK territorial waters in the southern and central North Sea where marine spatial planning is underway and a network of Marine Protected Areas has been proposed. For fleets (UK and non-UK) and years (2006–2010) considered, total trawled area included extensive ‘margins’ that always accounted for a smaller proportion of total fishing effort and value (proportions investigated were ≤10, 20, or 30%) than their proportional contribution to total habitat sensitivity and trawling impact. Interannual and fleet-related differences in the distribution and intensity of trawling activity, driven by location choice and fisheries regulations, had more influence on overall trawling impacts than the exclusion of beam trawlers from a proposed network of Marine Protected Areas. If reducing habitat impacts is adopted as an objective of fisheries or environmental management, then the direct management of fishing footprints, e.g. by defining fishing grounds that exclude existing margins, can disproportionately reduce trawling impacts per unit effort or value.

scholarly journals Marine Spatial Planning in a Transboundary Context: Linking Baja California with California's Network of Marine Protected Areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Arafeh-Dalmau ◽  
Guillermo Torres-Moye ◽  
Georges Seingier ◽  
Gabriela Montaño-Moctezuma ◽  
Fiorenza Micheli
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Baja California ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning
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