The Norwegian ecosystem-based management plan for the Barents Sea

Abstract

Olsen, E., Gjøsæter, H., Røttingen, I., Dommasnes, A., Fossum, P., and Sandberg, P. 2007. The Norwegian ecosystem-based management plan for the Barents Sea. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 599–602. In April 2006, the Norwegian government launched a White Paper on a new holistic management plan for the Norwegian part of the Barents Sea, including the fishery protection zone around Svalbard. Following international guidelines for ecosystem-based management, the plan provides an overall framework for managing all human activities (oil and gas industry, fishing, and shipping) in the area to ensure the continued health, production, and function of the Barents Sea ecosystem. The primary function of area-based management is the identification of areas of special importance from either ecological or human perspectives. In each area, access for different human activities is to be carefully managed. The plan is based on an assessment of the current and anticipated impact of human activities and of the interactions between them, taking into account deficits in current knowledge of ecosystem state and dynamics. To monitor the overall development of the Barents Sea's state of health, a set of indicators with associated environmental quality objectives has been developed.

Integrated Ocean Management as a Strategy to Meet Rapid Climate Change: The Norwegian Case

“…Also, both have written about the management plan work in earlier publications (e.g. Hoel 2010;Olsen et al 2007). In addition to this, the article also draws on a number of secondary sources, mainly to provide context for the issue at hand here.…”

“…2) are defined. Also in phase 3, the gaps in knowledge and setting management objectives are addressed (Olsen et al 2007;Olsen and Auran 2008).…”

Harvest control rules in modern fisheries management

“…Norway has taken a number of steps to implement an ecosystem-based management scheme for the Barents Sea (Olsen et al, 2007). For example, Barents Sea capelin stock assessment scientists have for a number of years estimated cod predation (Gjøsaeter et al, 2015) and has developed at least the scientific basis for including the cod-capelin interaction in cod management.…”

Interdisciplinarity as an Emergent Property: The Research Project “CINTERA” and the Study of Marine Eutrophication

“…In the management of marine resources, such collaboration has in effect become policy: the ecosystem approach to management (EAM) has now been adopted in Norway [13], the European Union [14] and, in principle, the United States' federal marine management agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) [15]. The EAM not only requires a multi-sectoral approach to management-that is, the management of sectors such as fisheries, tourism, and shipping in an integrated way-but is also an approach that comprehends the human and natural components of the ecosystem as inextricably coupled (this is here termed the socio-ecological system (SES) approach) [16][17][18].…”