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Mapping Marine Governance:

it should be legally permissibleand administratively

achievable!

Professor Mike Elliott and Sue Boyes

Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies (IECS)

The University of Hull

DEVelopment Of innovative Tools for

understanding marine biodiversity andassessing good Environmental Status


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Challenges for science & management:

Recovery/coping with historical legacy

Endangered coastal and marine

ecosystem functions

Legal & adminstrative framework Economic prosperity and delivery of

societal benefits

Coping with climate change & moving

baselines

There is only one big idea in marine

management: how to maintain and

protect ecological structure andfunctioning while at the same time

allowing the system to produce

ecosystem services from which we

derive societal benefits.


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Impediments: Bottlenecks,

Showstoppers & Trainwrecks:


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To be successful, management measures or responses to

changes resulting from human activities should be:

The 10 tenets:

Ecologically sustainable

Technologically feasible

Economically viable

Socially desirable/tolerable

Legally permissible

Administratively achievable

Politically expedient

Ethically defensible (morally

correct)

Culturally inclusive

Effectively communicable

Management tools

needed to cover all of

these!


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KEY

Ministerial Depts

Executive Agencies

Executive Non-DepartmentalPublic Bodies

Local GovernmentBodies

Trading FundAgency

AdvisoryCommittees

Department for

Environment, Food

and Rural Affairs

(Defra)

(all have statutory seats on the IFCAs)

Department for

Environment Foodand Rural Affairs

(DEFRA)

Make pol icy and legislation,and working with others todeli ver policies in areas such

as:- the natural environment,biodiversity, plants andanimals- sustain able developmentand the green economy- food, farming and fisheries- animal health and welfare- envi ronmental protectionand pollution control- rural communities andissues.

Marine ManagementOrgan isation (MMO)

Food & Environment ResearchAgency (FERA)

Natural England

Inshore FisheriesConservationAuthori ties (IFCAs)

Animal Health & Veter inaryLaborator ies Agency (AHVLA)

- Plant health.

- Managing d isease, Endangered species (CITES),Wild life Inspectorate.

- Marine pl anning (carry out planning and licensingfuncti ons for English waters; develop a series of marineplan s covering the English marine area); Fisheries(day s at sea for co d and sole recovery zones,dis pensations, monitoringand enforcement, quotas,statisti cs & vessels licenses); Protecting theenvi ronment (Marine pollution, nature conservation &wild life licences);Mari ne regulationand licensing(marine licencing, harbour orders, Sec 36 of ElectricityAct (>1MW to 100MW), public register and supportinglegi slation); Offshore Renewable Energy LicensingGroup (ORELG) established to overcome any issuesarisi ng from the l icensing and permitting processes

associated with the deployment of offshore wind andwave and ti dal renewable energy.

- Biod iversity (reducing its decline & licensing protectedspeci es across England); Landscape (designatingnatio nal parks and AONB); Management (NNRs andno tifying SSSIs); Responsibility (MCZs, EMSs, SSSIs,Ramsar sites an d the network of MPAs); Advisinggovernment & ind ustry on marine conservation andseascape issues in Englands territorial waters (from thecoast o ut to 12 nautical miles offshore); Advice onMarine sea fisheries, marine renewable energy,regulati on & licencing and spatial planning.

Envir onment Agency

- Climate change; Waste and recycling; Flood risk(riv ers and sea); Bathing water quality; Coastal erosionrisk ; Water, air and land emissions (Environmental

Permitting Regs); Water quality (inc coasts andestuaries) ; Fishing licences; Wildlife & conservation;Regulation, advice & guidance for business & industry;Implementation of EU Directives WFD, MSFD & FRMD.

Joi nt Nature ConservationCommittee (JNCC)

- Informs policy development at nationall evel;Providessupp ort for implementation of European & internationallaws e.g. Mari ne Strategy Framework Dir; Identifying,moni toring & advising on UKs offshore marine naturecon servation; Establishing Marine Protected Areas;

Advic e to offshore industries; Support naturecon servation in th e UKs 14 Overseas Territories andthree Cro wn Dependencies; Survey & moni toring.

Sea Fish Industry Authority- Info rmation (support for industry's business decisions);Safety at sea; Protec ting the environment at sea & onland ; Regulation (understanding, interpreting &responding to l egislation for in dustry); Supporting quality

& efficienc y standards); Consumer support.

- Managi ng fisheries & enforcing fisheries legislation(vo luntary agreements, codes of conducts, byelaws andother regulations out to 6nm); Research (stockassessments, fis heries impact research, environmentalmoni toring and habitat mapping); Liaising withfishermen & ang lers; Consulting on marine d evelopmentwork and attending meetings on marine spatial planningand marine conservation zones.

Science AdvisoryCouncil - Provi de Defra with expert & independent advice on

scien ce policy & strategy.

MOD DECC DfT

UKHO &DATA

planninglicensing

emergencyresponse

Centre for Environment,Fisheries and AquacultureScience (CEFAS)

- Climate change impacts & adaptation; marineplan ning & environmental licensing; sustainablefisheries management; fish and shellfish health &hygiene; data collection


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Your feedback:

What tools/pieces of legislation have we missed?

Have we correctly interpreted the links between thevarious articles?

Are there any areas of the marine environment where we

still require new legislation?

Given that many designations (e.g. GEnS, GEcS, FCS)

overlap and conflict, are the different regimes coherent?

Is our interpretation of the present marine governance

structure in England accurate?Has the creation of the MMO simplified the English

marine governance or are there still conflicting

responsibilities?


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DEVelopment Of innovative Tools forunderstanding marine biodiversity andassessing good Environmental Status

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advance for any

comments!
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