Human activities in

the sea - highlights of

new directions in ICES

science

Maritime Spatial Planning Roundtable

Baltic Sea Day 2014

St. Petersburg, 19-20 March

Wojciech Wawrzynski

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia,

Finland, France, Germany, Iceland,

Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the

Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal,

Russia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

and the USA.

Who is Advised by ICES?

Integrated Ecosystem

Assessments

International commitments to the Ecosystem

Approach

Regional integrated management

• Ecosystem overviews

• Integrated ecosystem assessments

ICES eco-regions Barents Sea Norwegan Sea Baltic Sea North Sea Western European Shelf Seas Northwest Atlantic Regional Sea

ICES Data and Information

110 years of data

http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk/

ICES Publications

All scientific and advisory

results are published

• Cooperative Research Reports

• ICES Techniques in Marine

Environmental Sciences (TIMES)

• ICES Journal of Marine Science

(JMS),

• Survey Protocols

Online publication of all reports

and documents on the ICES

website www.ices.dk

Training Programme

Training Courses for 2013: AD Model Builder and Stock Assessment, 18-22 February Stock Assessment (introduction), 27-31 May Fisheries Management to meet Biodiversity Conservation needs, 18–20 June Ecosystem Modelling for Fishery Management, 26-30 August Trawl Survey Design and Evaluation, 4-8 November Analysing and visualization of VMS and EU logbook data using the VMStools R package, 11-15 November Application of Geostatistics to analyse spatially explicit Survey data in an Ecosystem Approach, 2-6 December Communicating Science and Advice, dates and place not yet decided. How to Lead an Effective Technical Meeting, dates and place not yet decided.

Secretariat in Copenhagen: 50 staff servicing Science Programme, Advisory Programme, Data Centre, Publications, IT, Administration, Project Coordination

Secretariat in Copenhagen: Each year, approx. 1500 participants attend 90 in-house meetings at a total of 6000 person days.

• The science and tools for

management of networks of

MPAs

• The application of science for

ecosystem-based management

of aquaculture

ToRs 1/2:

- Report on approaches and methods to develop

and incorporate thresholds of acceptable

environmental (social and ecological) change in

the context of MSP processes;

- Develop a typology of conflicts in MSP, ICZM

and EBM, identify information needs to analyse,

selected types of conflicts and instruments to

address these;

ToRs 2/2:

- Develop a strategy to source and present key

datasets to support MSP/ICZM activities (review

requirements of marine planners / managers;

develop data holdings – ICES Data Centre).

EU’ draft directive establishing a framework

for maritime spatial planning

The draft directive aims at establishing a

common European framework for MSP and

ICM with a view to ensuring that the growth

of maritime and coastal activities and the

use of resources at sea remain sustainable.

MSPlans to be drawn by MS – mapping

existing human activities and identify their

optimal spatial development at sea, develop

ICM strategies with coordinated

management.

Boosting blue growth sectors (jobs) in the

context of increasing competition for space;

Reducing regulatory complexity – as current

fragmented sea space management leads to

overregulation.

EU Directive – safeguarding subsidiarity

principle (art. 5 TEU): solutions at local or

national level; flexibility for implementation

by MS.

Consistency with other regulations (MSFD,

CFP…)

Wojciech Wawrzynski

Wojciech@ices.dk