The First International Conference on Marine Mammal Protected Areas

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Main Workshop Findings: • Threats should be considered both in the design and monitoring program of an MPA. • In order to design MPAs with ecologically meaningful boundaries, it is desirable to consider multiple species with various characteristics in common, particularly with respect to distribution, movements, and threats. Behavior and social systems should also be taken into account in attempting to identify “critical habitat” for the species of greatest interest and concern. Results of spatial (and other) modeling should be integrated into survey design as much as possible. • A classification system is needed to help assess the effectiveness of MPAs and to avoid giving the public and policymakers a “false sense of security,” i.e., an impression that more protection has been achieved than really has been. This will require clear management plans that set measurable objectives for assessing effectiveness. Demographic modeling as well as spatial risk modeling that links protection measures and risk factors with population trends for the species of interest and concern may be useful in efforts to assess MPA effectiveness. • Much more attention should be given to dynamic physical and biological features of the marine environment when designing MPAs or other spatially explicit management measures (Turtle Watch provides a good example of this). • Corridors have been largely neglected in the design of MPAs for marine mammals. Instead, the focus has tended to be on boxes drawn around “hotspots” of animal occurrence, often taking into account the feasibility of designation in terms of political, economic, and social considerations. However, corridors used by marine mammals as they migrate or move between “hotspots” can be critically important to long-term population viability. Corridors may be amenable to management as dynamic protected areas or protected through other temporally and spatially explicit management measures. • When providing advice to policymakers, scientists should offer several options and their likely associated consequences. <strong>The</strong> options may range from no special protection to complete protection. In this way, the burden of decision-making is shifted to managers who are accountable via legal, administrative, and political processes. • It is important to remember that MPA designation is not an end in itself and that management needs to be adaptive. This means that research, monitoring, and evaluation must be ongoing and set within a regional context. Concerns about climate change have made such needs more apparent than ever. ICMMPA <strong>Conference</strong> Proceedings 74
Workshop 3: Getting Stakeholders to Talk to Each Other: Improving the Process Convener: Ricardo Sagarminaga Co-chairs: Ricardo Sagarminaga and Ana Tejedor Participants: Lisa Andon, Olive Andrews, Alain Barcelo, Deborah Benham, Mike Bossley, Elsa Cabrera, Gonzalo Cid, Mike Donoghue, Emily Gaskin, Miguel Iñíguez, Haryadi Itimawan, Jamal, Otto Lee, Christophe Lefebvre, Mick McIntyre, Vincent Ridoux, Philippe Robert, Ricardo Sagarminaga, Ana Tejedor, Jen Vandenur, Trevor Ward, Michael Williams Overview: <strong>The</strong> efficacy of MPAs for the conservation of highly mobile species (which most marine mammals are) has been the subject to much debate over the last decades. Stakeholder involvement is among the key factors highlighted as critical for ensuring that MPAs are effective tools for conservation. Scientists and resource managers often have experience and knowledge appropriate for addressing problems of study design, fishery management, and monitoring. Unfortunately, however, they often lack the skills and experience needed to effectively engage the public and stakeholders in both short- and long-term projects. This makes it difficult for such individuals to ensure that conservation initiatives have broad community support. Some of the themes of successful consensus-based management are stakeholder identification, communication strategies and tools, building trust, maintaining interest and positive momentum, avoiding conflicts, giving a sense of responsibility and ownership, good structures for management, consultation, and coordination, and finding “win-win” solutions. Considering the economic and logistical challenges of enforcing regulations in the open ocean, such themes are essential to create and implement successful MPAs. Workshop Goal: <strong>The</strong> goal of this workshop was to initiate a discussion among people who deal with the issues of stakeholder communication and involvement in MMPAs. In the process of exchanging perspectives and experiences, participants were asked to focus on the question: How can networking be applied to stakeholder involvement to improve the process? ICMMPA <strong>Conference</strong> Proceedings 75
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