Suggestion: Specify set of objectives for MPA systems

 

 

Provide for a system of MPAs to be established to achieve specified objectives. Objectives could be based on a combination of existing and new objectives, with reference to objectives listed in regional seas conventions.

 

 

References/Examples:

CCAMLR Conservation Measure 91-04

OSPAR Guidelines for the Identification and Selection of MPAs

OSPAR Guidance on Developing an Ecologically Coherent Network Of OSPAR MPAs

SPA/BD Protocol to the Barcelona Convention Art 4 (objectives)