Identifying marine pelagic ecosystem management objectives and indicators
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| Date | 2015-05 | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||||||||||
| Author(s) | Trenkel Verena 1, Hintzen Niels T.2, Farnsworth Keith D.3, Olesen Christian4, Reid David5, Rindorf Anna6, Shephard Samuel3, Dickey-Collas Mark7 |
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| Affiliation(s) | 1 : IFREMER, F-44311 Nantes 3, France. 2 : Inst Marine Resources & Ecosyst Studies, IMARES, NL-1970 AB Ijmuiden, Netherlands. 3 : Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Biol Sci, Belfast BT9 7BL, Antrim, North Ireland. 4 : Danish Pelag Producers Org, DK-1553 Copenhagen, Denmark. 5 : Irish Marine Inst, Galway, Ireland. 6 : Tech Univ Denmark, Natl Inst Aquat Resources, DK-2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark. 7 : ICES, DK-1553 Copenhagen, Denmark. |
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| Source | Marine Policy (0308-597X) (Elsevier Sci Ltd), 2015-05 , Vol. 55 , P. 23-32 | ||||||||||||||||
| DOI | 10.1016/j.marpol.2015.01.002 | ||||||||||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 14 | ||||||||||||||||
| Note | FP7 EURO-BASIN (Grant agreement n°264933) | ||||||||||||||||
| Keyword(s) | Ecosystem-based management, Marine pelagic community, Management objective, MSFD, CFP | ||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | International policy frameworks such as the Common Fisheries Policy and the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive define high-level strategic goals for marine ecosystems. Strategic goals are addressed via general and operational management objectives. To add credibility and legitimacy to the development of objectives, for this study stakeholders explored intermediate level ecological, economic and social management objectives for Northeast Atlantic pelagic ecosystems. Stakeholder workshops were undertaken with participants being free to identify objectives based on their own insights and needs. Overall 26 objectives were proposed, with 58% agreement in proposed objectives between two workshops. Based on published evidence for pressure-state links, examples of operational objectives and suitable indicators for each of the 26 objectives were then selected. It is argued that given the strong species-specific links of pelagic species with the environment and the large geographic scale of their life cycles, which contrast to demersal systems, pelagic indicators are needed at the level of species (or stocks) independent of legislative region. Pelagic community indicators may be set at regional scale in some cases. In the evidence-based approach used in this study, the selection of species or region specific operational objectives and indicators was based on demonstrated pressure-state links. Hence observed changes in indicators can reliably inform on appropriate management measures. | ||||||||||||||||
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