marine protected areas in scotland’s seas
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Marine Protected Areas in Scotland’s Seas. Ecological data workshop. David Mallon Marine Environment Branch Marine Scotland. Background. Powers and duties – Marine (Scotland) Act and UK Marine and Coastal Access Act Territorial and Offshore waters - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Marine Protected Areas in Scotland’s Seas
Ecological data workshop
David Mallon
Marine Environment Branch
Marine Scotland
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Background
• Powers and duties – Marine (Scotland) Act and UK Marine and Coastal Access Act
• Territorial and Offshore waters• Three pillar approach (Priority Marine Features)
i. Species Measures
ii. Site protection measures
iii. Wider seas policies and measures
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Scottish MPA project
• Project partnership – Marine Scotland, SNH, JNCC, Historic Scotland and SEPA
• Nature Conservation MPAs• Demonstration & Research MPAs• Historic MPAs• Science-based process
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Principles
1. Deliver Scotland’s MPA commitments2. Benefits for marine natural features and support wider
ecosystem function3. To include marine natural features considered as
priorities for area-based protection in Scotland’s waters4. Individual sites considered on their merit in contributing
to ecological coherence of network
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Principles
5. Network development to take into account distinctive biogeographical differences of our seas
6. MPA network composed of a range of different types of protected areas
7. Network managed to deliver long-term protection to marine natural features
8. Significant progress towards identifying Nature Conservation MPAs to complete network will have been made by the end of 2012
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Ecological coherence• Guidance developed under OSPAR Convention on key
design features associated with ecological coherence:
– Representation – Replication – Size of site – Adequacy – Connectivity – Management
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Features
• MPA search features– Underpin the initial selection of Nature Conservation
MPAs• MPA protected features
– Features which are formally protected by the designation order for a Nature Conservation MPA
• Network features– Features afforded protection by the MPA network as a
whole
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Network
• Network composition– Nature Conservation MPAs– Other areas which are formally designated– Area-based measures
• Finalised selection guidelines publishedwww.scotland.gov.uk/marinescotland/mpaguidelines
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Network timescales
Report on progress of
MPA network 2012
Define Good Environmental
Status 2012 (MSFD)
Deliver a well managed network
of sites 2016
Good Environmental
Status achieved for UK seas 2020
Identify a MPA network 2012
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Future stakeholder engagement• Stakeholder engagement overview publication - 2011
2011 / 2012 & ongoing• National stakeholder workshops• Marine Strategy Forum• Bilaterals with different national organisations
2012 onwards• Detailed discussions on MPA proposals
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Workshop
• What we are about to present
– Data collated to date
• What we need from you
– Gaps in the data
– Metadata on potential data sources
• Third party proposals
– Add your anticipated submissions to flip chart
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[email protected] - Scottish [email protected] - Territorial [email protected] - Offshore waters