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Sanctuary Ecological Research Area (SERA) Proposal Presentation to the NEFMC Habitat Committee
April 6, 2012
“America’s Underwater Treasures”
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SBNMS Final Management Plan
Strategy 2.1 of the Ecosystem Alteration Plan addresses the need to establish true reference areas.
• (2.1) Develop a process to establish reference areas that serve as benchmarks for discerning human and natural impacts on habitat.
NEFMC EFH Omnibus Amendment process
Re-evaluate existing and proposed closed areas in the Gulf of Maine
• Phase I (completed) identified and mapped EFH
• Phase II (underway) involves quantification and mitigation of fishing gear impacts including consideration of designated habitat research areas (DHRAs)
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Create reference and treatment areas for long-term scientific studies to assess and conserve biological diversity and to minimize adverse effects to essential fish habitat. a,b Management needs to know, for example:
Research Objectives
• How habitat quality contributes to fisheries productivity (fisheries productivity)
• How differing levels of natural and fishing gear disturbance affect spatial patterns of biological diversity (biodiversity)
• What constitutes a mature and ecologically resilient seafloor community (and its relation to biological diversity and fisheries productivity)
• How are seafloor and overlying water column communities linked ecologically
a SERA research design considerations allow for testing SASI model assumptions identified during peer review.
b SERA design considerations can address research questions identified by the Habitat Committee PDT.
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Fishing Gear Types Proposed to be
Allowed Within SERA Subarea
• Proposed area would cover 251 sq. nautical miles or 0.9% of Gulf of Maine
• Proposed area would cover 39% of SBNMS
• WGoM Habitat Closure Area currently overlaps SBNMS by 22%
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• Realize Equitable Habitat Representation
• Control for Oceanographic Regimes
• Minimize Impact to Fishing Activities
Criteria for Site Selection
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MudSandGravelBoulder
SBNMS Subarea A
Sliver
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Principal Oceanographic
Regimes
Maine Surface( 0 – 60 m )
Intermediate( 61 – 150 m )
Deep Water( > 150 m )
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Total VTR TripsMay 1, 1998-2009
(118,174 trips)
Total VTR TripsMay 1, 1998-2009
(118,174 trips) Mobile 4.6
Fixed 4.8
Party 0.9
Charter 0.6
Com Hnd 0.2
All Gear 11.2
Affected Trips (%)
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VTR Data – May 1, 1998 to 2009
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VTR Data – May 1, 1998 to 2009
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Recreational Fishing
Recreational Fishing
May – October 2010
Last trip of each month
May – October 2010
Last trip of each month
Mass OceanPartnership Recreational
Boating Survey
Mass OceanPartnership Recreational
Boating Survey
Yellow lines = Routes Fished
Purple polygons = Areas Fished
Yellow lines = Routes Fished
Purple polygons = Areas Fished
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Difference in hard substrate seafloor sites after seven years.
Bottom tending fishing gear allowed
Bottom tending fishing gear prohibited
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Over 15 million optical images(1 meter width) in SBNMS