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Integrating the Common Fisheries Policy and the Marine Strategy for the Baltic: Discussion of Spatial and Temporal Scales in the Management and Adaptation to Changing Climate

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The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) requires the achievement of Good Environmental Status (GES) by 2020 and the adoption of the Ecosystem Approach. The former sectoral approach to management must be transformed to adhere to the requirements of the new directive. Fishery is a particularly important example, because it relies heavily on the ecosystem, sustains many coastal communities and still has large economic impacts at national level. We examine the cod fishery in the Eastern Baltic and the feasibility of integrating the intermediate and final ecosystem services and benefits associated with the fishery into the ‘programmes of measures’. We use Decision Space Analysis to visualize the spatial challenges concerning competing priorities and expectations for uses of the marine area, as well as the temporal challenges of achieving GES under the very short time constraints of the MSFD.

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    This is the working definition of the KnowSeas project adapted from that of the Ontario ministry for natural resources. A full rationale for the choice of the definition is contained in KnowSeas deliverable 2.1 which may be obtained by contacting the authors.

Abbreviations

MSFD:

Marine strategy framework directive

GES:

Good environmental status

CFP:

Common fisheries policy

EEZ:

Exclusive economic zone

CAP:

Common agricultural policy

NPV:

Net present value

MSY:

Maximum sustainable yield

MEY:

Maximum economic yield

TAC:

Total allowable catch

ITQ:

Individual transferrable quota

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement number 226675. The KnowSeas project is affiliated with LOICZ and LWEC.

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  1. Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Argyll, PA37 1QA, Scotland

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  2. Department of Environmental and Business Economics, University of Southern Denmark, DK-6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Eva Roth

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O’Higgins, T., Roth, E. (2011). Integrating the Common Fisheries Policy and the Marine Strategy for the Baltic: Discussion of Spatial and Temporal Scales in the Management and Adaptation to Changing Climate. In: Schernewski, G., Hofstede, J., Neumann, T. (eds) Global Change and Baltic Coastal Zones. Coastal Research Library, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0400-8_16

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