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ICES Strategic Plan, launched in 2014, commits to building a foundation of science around one key challenge: integrated ecosystem understanding. Here, Mark Dickey-Collas, ICES Ecosystem Professional Officer, explains what integrated means to ICES science and advice.
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What do we mean by integrated?
Mark Dickey-Collas
Integrated?
Integrated monitoring and surveys
Integrate science into advice
Integrate across disciplines
Integrate across sectors
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Provision of joined-up advice to address society’s needs to manage anthropogenic pressures on the marine ecosystem.
Exploring the space for decision making.
ICES must provide integrated advice...
EU - New CFP
“ensure that fishing activities are environmentally sustainable in the long term and are managed with the objectives of achieving economic and social benefits, and maintain food supplies”
Agreement between EU & ICES
“advisory deliverables shall be based on an ecosystem approach consistent with the targets and objectives for GES determined through MSFD”
Habitats Directive, Birds Directive etc
Norway, Iceland, Russia, USA & Canada
International commitments to the Ecosystem Approach
Regional integrated management
• Norwegian and Barents Seas
• In USA and Canada
Norwegian Marine Resources ActRussian Federal Law on Fisheries and conservation of biological resources in the watersIcelandic Fisheries Management ActFaroe Islands Fisheries Management Act
New
Four Pillars
Goals
1. Develop an integrated, interdisciplinary understanding of the structure, dynamics, and the resilience and response of marine ecosystems to change
2. Understand the relationship between human activities and marine ecosystems, estimate pressures and impacts, and develop science-based, sustainable pathways
3. Evaluate and advise on options for the sustainable use and protection of marine ecosystems
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Advice must be consistent across issues
Mixed fisheries and multispecies interactions
Food web interactions
Rare and endangered species
Bycatch issues, impacts of gear
Sensitive habitats / MPAs
Marine Spatial Planning
ICES Regional Groups
WGIBARWGINORWGIABWGINOSEWGEAWESSWGNARS
Advice: consider change and variability
Impact of Ecosystem Drivers
Impact of Anthropogenic Pressures
Bring in new scientific thinking and evidence
• Keep challenging our approaches
• ACOM & SCICOM catalyse each other
• Appropriate tools
• Process studies
• Stay credible
Work with research councils and EU projects
Implications of integration?
Leave our comfort zones
Work across new disciplines through teams
Work in a complex changing system - science support and governance
Management objectives
Society will choose objectives- we may find difficult to justify through science
But they are tools to aid integration – provide a target at which to aim
Show tradeoffs in development and implementation of objectives
Evidence Base
Advice will be created from evidence of differing integrity, sources and certainty.
Learn to integrate the more certain with the less certain, combine across management objectives and show tradeoffs
Start to dialogue - IEA now
ICES IEA groups make tools & methods
Need to build participatory processes
Stimulate policy developers
Carry out simple IEAs (ICES Advice Plan)
Expect complexity, stay adaptive
ICES Science policy landscape
Integrating mixed evidence & objectives
Data & knowledgeprovision for yield
Data & knowledge provisionfor biodiversity & ecosystem function
high medium low
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It is an iterative process
FAO Ecosystem Approach
Thank
you
