Natural England

Natural England organised the first UK MPA Conference. It brought together those involved in management, designation, science and policy development of MPAs.

• Report: Towards a coherent network of Marine Protected Areas conference
• Conference Programme [76 kB]

The objectives of the conference sessions were:

• What can MPAs deliver?
  Discuss the evidence of benefits (biodiversity and socio-economics) that MPAs can deliver with a focus on the UK.

• The story so far: how are we doing in building our MPA network?
  Discuss progress in completing the MPA network.
  Showcase good management practices within existing MPAs and discuss management problems and solutions to solve these.

• Approaches to selecting MPAs
  Present possible approaches for establishing MPAs.
  Discuss how to integrate industry and environmental desires into the network.

• What else do we need to do to achieve our MPA targets?
  Discuss the legislative tools and other actions delegates believe are needed to establish an effective, coherent network of MPAs in the UK.

Presentations

1: What can MPAs deliver?

• Keynote: What MPAs can deliver [6.2 MB] – Prof Steve Gaines, University of California
• What Natural England believes a network of MPAs can deliver [5.5 MB] – Mark Duffy, Natural England
• MPAs - benefits to biodiversity: from rare to representative [1.6 MB] - Jean-Luc Solandt, Marine Conservation Society
• What can MPAs deliver for fisheries? [60 kB] – Barrie Deas, National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations
• What can MPAs do for people and local communities? [5.7 MB] – Tony Child, Project Officer, Thanet Coast Project

2: The story so far: how are we doing in building our MPA network?

• Keynote: International progress towards a the Natura 2000 network of MPAs [4.4 MB] – Jochen Krause, Bundesamt fur Naturschutz, Germany
• Progress in completing the Natura 2000 and OSPAR networks [3.2 MB] – Annabelle Aish and Andy Webb, Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
• How the UK Governments will develop a MPA policy following the Marine Act:
  • How the UK Governments will deliver their MPA policies through new marine legislation [162 kB] - Emily Musson, Defra, Wendy Twell, Welsh Assembly Government and David Mallon, Scottish Executive
  • MPA policy in UK offshore and English territorial waters [38 kB] - Emily Musson, Defra
  • MPA policy in the seas around Scotland [75 kB] - David Mallon, Scottish Executive
• Achieving effective MPAs [814 kB] – Jen Ashworth, Natural England & Carol Daniels, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)
• Building public support for MPAs [634 kB] – Lisa Chilton, Wildlife Trusts
• Establishing local community support for a MPA [3.9 MB] – Don Macneish, Community of Arran Seabed Trust

Case studies of good practice in Managing European marine sites:

• Developing a Shared Vision for Flamborough [1.2 MB] – Leanne Stockdale, Flamborough Head Project Officer
• Bringing the Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast EMS and Northumberland Coast AONB closer together [300 kB] - Aisling Lannin
• The Wash & North Norfolk Coast European Marine Site Management Scheme [1.2 MB] – Peter Rushmer
• Lundy Marine Nature Reserve [1.8 MB] – Nicola Saunders, Lundy Warden
• An analysis of partnership approaches to achieve strategic marine conservation objectives and of the perspectives of different actors on such approaches [33 kB] – Thomas Mark Roberts, University College London
• The North Norfolk Kiters' Working Group [361 kB] – Janice Howell, Working Group Chair

3: Approaches for selecting MPAs.

• Keynote: The PROTECT Project and its approach to selecting MPAs [2.6 MB] – John Pinnegar, Cefas
• Designing regional MPA networks - the Finding Sanctuary approach [6.5 MB] – Tom Hooper, Finding Sanctuary
• Applying network design software to the UK [1.3 MB] – Prof Mike Kaiser, University of Bangor
• Investigating new marine SACs - current Natura 2000 survey work:
  • Current Natura 2000 survey work for marine SACs [1.2 MB] – Viv Blyth-Skyrme, JNCC
  • Project background [875 kB] – Mat Cork & Pete Gaches, Royal Haskoning
• Mapping fishing effort and its applicability to MPAs [2.7 MB] – Giles Bartlett, North Eastern Sea Fisheries Committee
• Investigating win-wins for conservation and renewable energy [21.3 MB] – Justine Saunders, ABPmer
• Reconciling conservation objectives and other commercial interests within MPAs [2.5 MB] – Ian Barrett, Defra

4: What else do we need to do to achieve our MPA targets?

• MPA provisions in the Marine Bill: perspectives from LINK [1.3 MB] – Kate Tanner, Wildlife & Countryside Link
• The effectiveness of legislation for MPAs [134 kB] – Tom Appleby, University of Bristol
• Highly Protected Marine Reserves: their contribution to achieving MPA targets for Wales [1.4 MB] – Mary Lewis, Countryside Council for Wales (CCW)
• Priority actions needed to achieve our MPAs targets: next steps [1.6 MB] - Sue Gubbay