Marine Protected Areas as a fisheries management tool
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Description
The purpose of the LEH-AO is related to three key-points: (i) research through the design and implementation of joint research projects, (ii) research and training through academic teaching, students and professionals supervision and scientists internship, and (iii) expertise through scientific advice needed by institutional decision-makers in charge of the fisheries management as well as the coastal and marine environment.
The laboratory deals with four major research priorities in Senegal; (i) the environmental impact on exploited fish stocks, (ii) the biodiversity conservation, (iii) the coastal and estuarine ecosystem management, and (iv) the development and governance issues at national and sub-regional levels. It is a mixed laboratory that has been formed by five education and research institutes. Its team is a multidisciplinary group including researchers and university teachers with various specialties (fisheries ecology, fisheries economics and physical oceanography), PhD and Master students, field and scientific surveys technicians as well as administrative assistants. The LEH-AO's finality is to unify research institutes in ecology and fisheries socio-economics, at the national level first and then at sub-regional scale in order to foster the share of human, logistical resources and research on marine protected area.
Universit Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis 'UGB', UFR de Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Aquaculture et de Technologies Alimentaires (Academic institution)
Universit Cheick Anta Diop 'UCAD', Institut Fondamental dAfrique Noire 'IFAN', Laboratoire de Biologie et dEcologie des Poissons en Afrique de lOuest 'LABEP-AO' (Academic institution)
Universit Assane Seck de Ziguinchor 'UASZ' (Academic institution)
SDGS & Targets
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.4.1
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.5.1
14.6
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
14.7
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"
14.c.1
Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
SDG 14 targets covered
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 14.2 | By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans |
| 14.a | Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries |
Deliverables & Timeline
Resources mobilized
Partnership Progress
| Title | Progress Status | Submitted |
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| Partnership Progress 2017-11-06 | On track |
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Patrice Brehmer, Dr