PISCES Partnerships Involving Stakeholders

in the Celtic Sea EcoSystem

Toby Roxburgh (Policy Liaison Officer)

The Shellfish Association of Great Britain’s

43rd Annual Conference

Fishmongers’ Hall, London. 22 – 23 May 2012

Presentation focus:

• Background to the PISCES Project

• Progress

• PISCES guide

• Next steps

• Opportunities

• LIFE+ co-funded, 2009-2012, €2M

• WWF-UK + partners in France, Ireland, Spain

• Created and working with a Celtic Sea

stakeholder group

• Developing practical guide on implementation

of the ecosystem approach

• Focus on Marine Strategy Framework Directive

The PISCES project

Celtic Sea

Stakeholder group

• Main sectors:

fisheries, mariculture, aggregates,

undersea cables, renewables, ports,

shipping, coastal tourism and recreation

• France, Ireland, England, Wales, Spain

• Key project output

• Unique: “voice” of stakeholders

• Due for launch 1st October 2012

• Capturing views on, for example:

– How stakeholders can participate in MSFD

– benefits to government (and stakeholders)

– what is needed to make this happen (e.g. new

governance mechanisms, funding, incentives etc)

PISCES guide

PISCES workshops

MSFD timeline and

scope for influence

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

MSFD enters

member state

legislation

Determine

what GES

means

Targets and

indicators for

each region

Spatial

protection

measures

identified

Establish and

implement

monitoring

programme

Programmes

of measures

for GES

Programmes

of measures

operational

Achieve or

maintain GES

Emerging

messages • Early/effective stakeholder participation:

– Voluntary measures / taking the initiative

– Helping to assess feasibility, effectiveness, costs

and impacts of measures

• Stakeholders need to be assertive / organised

• Governments need to support / enable

participation

• Multi-national multi-sector stakeholder forum

• Final draft PISCES guide - Aug 2012

• Translation / editor / final design / printing - Sept

2012

• Launch of guide - 1 Oct 2012

• Dissemination / communication events in UK,

Ireland, France, Spain and Belgium (Brussels) –

Oct to Nov 2012

Next steps

Opportunities to

get involved

now – 6 July

2012

- Reviewing / commenting on the draft

PISCES guide

Oct – Dec

2012

- Attending / supporting PISCES

dissemination events

> 1 Oct 2012 - Applying the guide in your sector

- Promoting it to other sea-users /

industry reps

Why

get involved? • PISCES guide is the voice of sea-users /

industry

• Gain an increased understanding of:

– the views of other sea-users / industry

– practical steps / actions you can take

– how to participate in policy implementation

Why

get involved? • Make your views known to others, including

other sea-users/industry and government

• Help to influence policy and implement the

ecosystem approach through “strength in a

common voice”

pisces@wwf.org.uk

www.piscesproject.eu

www.twitter.com/projectpisces

PISCES is being delivered by WWF-UK in partnership with The

Environment Council and WWF Spain, with country technical

support from the Coastal & Marine Research Centre in Ireland and

SeaWeb in France. This is an EC LIFE+ project with the contribution of the LIFE

financial instrument of the European Community.

Project number: LIFE07 ENV/UK/000943

Thank you