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Marine Protected Areas Management Lyme Bay and Torbay cSAC Neil Wellum MAIA workshop 13 June 2012 A Corua , Spain Briefing overview How MMO became involved in trialling the inshore VMS - MMO responsibilities - determining MPA

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Marine Protected Areas Management Lyme Bay and Torbay cSAC

Neil Wellum MAIA workshop 13 June 2012 A Coruña , Spain

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Briefing overview

  • How MMO became involved in trialling the inshore VMS
  • MMO responsibilities
  • determining MPA management measures
  • Lyme Bay and Torbay cSAC – management actions
  • VMS trial
  • Next steps
  • Developing a strategic approach to MPA management
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MMO responsibilities for MPAs

  • New nature conservation duties since 1 April 2010
  • Able to draw on our management and enforcement experience of CFP and

national sea fisheries regulations

  • EC Habitats and Wild Birds Directives for European protected habitats and

species, including wildlife licensing ‐ Conservation of Species and Habitats Regulations 2010 ‐ Offshore Marine Conservation (Natural Habitats &c.) Regulations 2007

  • Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) and MMO byelaws

‐ Marine & Coastal Access Act 2009, Part 5 (Enforcement Part 8)

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Determining MPA management measures

  • Conservation Objectives
  • Vulnerability assessments

‐ maintain ‐ restore

  • Management action

‐ do nothing ‐ non‐statutory measures ‐ statutory measures

  • Publish management action on‐line

http://www.marinemanagement.org.uk/protecting/conservation/lyme_bay.htm

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MPA management tools

  • Non‐statutory

‐ voluntary agreements ‐ codes of conduct

  • Statutory

‐ MMO byelaws ‐ marine licence conditions ‐ fishing licence conditions ‐ IFCA fisheries byelaws ‐ national & EC fisheries regulations

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Lyme Bay background

  • Sept. 2010 Natural England advice
  • MMO holds series of

meetings with key parties

  • fishermen SWIFA/SWFPO
  • Southern IFCA
  • Devon and Severn IFCA
  • Natural England
  • Fishing licence condition
  • MMO/SWIFA agreement
  • differential management inshore VMS trial
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Characteristics for inshore VMS

  • High frequency position reporting (1/min) – access by internet
  • Mobile phone technology to reduce cost
  • Robust simple compact construction for small vessels
  • Tamper proofing
  • Geofence boundaries around sensitive habitat areas
  • Email alerts to enforcement officers if Geofence boundaries crossed
  • Explore remote sensing technology (‘gear in’ ‘gear out’)
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Lyme Bay VMS trial

Statutory VMS requirement cSAC sensitive area chartlets

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Complex exercise in mapping co-ordinates

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VMS trial position monitoring – phase 1

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Lyme Bay sensitive reef area d

Vessel crosses geofence and sends email alert to marine

  • fficer
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Skipper’s eye view

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Getting used to interpreting the system

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VMS trials – phase 2 – fishing patterns

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Scallop dredging

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Shellfish potting

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Demersal (bottom) trawling

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Recommendations

  • Use ‘shape’ files to transfer co-ordinates throughout the process

from selecting a site to operating a management system and giving information to fishermen

  • Develop software to interpret very high volumes of data
  • Adjustable reporting frequencies that increase as a vessel

approaches a sensitive area

  • Use inshore VMS in combination with remote sensing technology

that confirms fishing or not fishing to strengthen evidence

  • Make screen images more user friendly for monitoring by

enforcement officers (eg marine chart background)

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Next steps for inshore VMS?

  • Final report just being completed and will be put on website

www.marinemanagement.org.uk/protecting/conservation/lyme_bay.htm

  • Continue managing site using system, until the two local

Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities are ready to take charge from the MMO

  • Meet Government, nature conservation advisers, fishing

industry, environmental organisations and other interested parties to discuss future prospects for zoned management with VMS

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MMO strategic MPA management table

  • 75 European Marine Sites in English waters are included in the

MMO strategic management table

  • Provides a summary picture for each site, including features of

importance, risk assessment and management actions and priorities

  • Enables targeted and prioritised approach to MPA management
  • In use already now and will be published via website summer 2012
  • MMO supports inclusive engagement with interested parties to help

find management solutions – a challenging but worthwhile process, if there is going to be good compliance with management provisions

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draft MPA strategic management table

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Any questions? More information about what the MMO is doing can be found at: http://www.marinemanagement.org.uk/protecting/index.htm

Thank you