BSEP116B Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea - Helcom

Table 7.2. Number and size of the designated and managed sites in the HELCOM BSPA database by country,
as well as information on the marine proportion of the BSPAs.
Country
Number
of BSPAs
Total area of
BSPAs (km ² )
Proportion
protected
(%)
Marine
proportion of
the BSPAs (%)
Marine area
(km 2 )
Marine proportion
of
BSPAs in EEZ
(%) a
Denmark 16 3 022 6.8 87.6 2 647 19.5
Estonia 5 2 560 6.9 63.0 1 612 0
Finland 22 6 100 7.4 90.4 5 512 0
Germany 12 4 780 31.5 93.7 4 480 54.8
Latvia 4 1 154 4.0 74.8 863 0.1
Lithuania 3 6 208 9.5 3.6 223 0
Poland 4 2 045 6.9 63.5 1 299 0
Russia 2 3 427 1.4 7.2 246 0
Sweden 21 6 781 4.5 83.9 5 687 2.0
Total 89 27 405 6.6 82.4 22 569 1.2
a)
Exclusive Economic Zone excluding territorial waters.
Table 7.3. Proportion of the marine area designated as BSPAs in relation to the total marine area in
HELCOM marine sub-regions and the larger sub-regions according to the BSPA database.
HELCOM 18 Sub-regions BSPA coverage (%) Sub-regions BSPA coverage (%)
The Gulf of Gdańsk 20 Baltic Proper 5
The Gulf of Riga 4
Eastern Gotland Basin 5
Western Gotland Basin 2
Southern Baltic Proper 4
Northern Baltic Proper 5
Bothnian Bay 3 Bothnian Bay 5
The Quark 18
Bothnian Sea 4 Bothnian Sea 4
Åland Sea 2
Archipelago Sea 4
Gulf of Finland 9 Gulf of Finland 9
Kattegat 8 Kattegat 12
The Sound 14
Little Belt 4
Great Belt 11
Kiel Bay 36
Bay of Mecklenburg 18
2012 12 . According to the HELCOM database, currently
approximately 6% of the Baltic Sea marine
area is covered by the 89 designated and managed
BSPAs, with a total area of 22 569 km 2 (Table 7.2).
12
Convention on Biological Diversity, COP7 Decision VII/30/
Annex2, target 1.1. UNEP/CBD/COP/7/21 (20 February
2004), e.g. at page 385.
Convention on Biological Diversity, COP7, Integration of
outcome-oriented targets into the programmes of work of
the Convention, taking into account the 2010 biodiversity
target, the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, and
relevant targets set by the World Summit on Sustainable
Development, Annex .
World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002). Report
of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg,
South Africa, 26 August-4 September 2002, e.g.
at paragraph 44.
However, it should be pointed out that HELCOM
itself has not yet agreed on any target for the
percentage of the Baltic Sea marine area to be
covered by BSPAs. If adding also terrestrial sites,
the network covers in total 27 405 km 2 .
The network of BSPAs covers examples in all the
sub-basins of the Baltic Sea (Figure 7.1). According
to the BSPA database, the coverage varies from
2% to 36% in the 18 HELCOM sub-regions, with
the lowest coverage, less than 5%, in the largest
sub-regions, e.g., the Eastern and Western Gotland
Basin and the Bothnian Bay (Table 7.3). Although
the current network of BSPAs covers coastal ter-
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