{"id":6831,"date":"2017-07-03T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2017-06-30T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:00:09","slug":"ia2017-the-network-of-ospar-marine-protected-areas-is-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2017\/07\/03\/ia2017-the-network-of-ospar-marine-protected-areas-is-expanding\/","title":{"rendered":"IA2017 &#8211; The network of OSPAR Marine Protected Areas is expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/MPAs-expanding.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-6832 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/MPAs-expanding-1024x783.jpg\" alt=\"The network of OSPAR Marine Protected Areas is expanding\" width=\"1024\" height=\"783\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/MPAs-expanding-1024x783.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/MPAs-expanding-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/MPAs-expanding-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/MPAs-expanding-670x512.jpg 670w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/MPAs-expanding-550x420.jpg 550w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/783;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Considerable progress has been made in developing OSPAR\u2019s Marine Protected Area (MPA) network.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Since the last OSPAR Quality Status Report (QSR 2010), a further 289 MPAs have been added to the network, bringing the total number to 448. MPAs now cover 5.9% of the OSPAR Maritime Area compared with a total coverage of only 1.1% in 2010.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">OSPAR is undertaking further work to understand what constitutes an ecologically-coherent and well-managed MPA network, and additional efforts are needed to implement the management measures necessary to achieve the conservation objectives of the protected features of OSPAR MPAs.<\/p>\n<p>Successful ecosystem-based management of the OSPAR MPAs in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ) requires coordination between the organisations responsible for regulating human activities in these areas. As a start, OSPAR and the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) have an ongoing arrangement in place to take into account each other\u2019s objectives and activities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oap.ospar.org\/en\/ospar-assessments\/intermediate-assessment-2017\/key-messages-and-highlights\/network-ospar-marine-protected-areas-expanding\/\">Read the Chapter in the Initial Assessment <\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considerable progress has been made in developing OSPAR\u2019s Marine Protected Area (MPA) network. Since the last OSPAR Quality Status Report (QSR 2010), a further 289 MPAs have been added to the network, bringing the total number to 448. MPAs now cover 5.9% of the OSPAR Maritime Area compared with a total coverage of only 1.1%&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,15,131],"tags":[185,184,348,350,349,347,324],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-general","category-mss","category-marine-scotland-surveys","tag-cefas","tag-defra","tag-environment","tag-jncc","tag-north-east-atlantic","tag-ospar","tag-sepa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IA2017 - The network of OSPAR Marine Protected Areas is expanding - Marine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2017\/07\/03\/ia2017-the-network-of-ospar-marine-protected-areas-is-expanding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IA2017 - The network of OSPAR Marine Protected Areas is expanding - Marine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Considerable progress has been made in developing OSPAR\u2019s Marine Protected Area (MPA) network. 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