MARE: Management perspective

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MARE Management perspective

• HELCOM MONAS - member of the MARE board
• Marine Convention focusing on the state and
  development in both the open sea and coastal
  water
• Can MARE give advice on measures to be taken
  (catchment and the sea) to
• fulfil the 50 reduction target on nutrient
  loading
• fulfil the future ecological quality objectives
  (EcoQOs)
• Can MARE be used presenting and assessing the
  results of HELCOM monitoring programmes?

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• Decisions taken in HELCOM are based on common
  agreement - no Directives or laws
• Focus on measures within the HELCOM catchment,
  but measures on ship traffic, emissions outside
  HELCOM catchment, dredging etc. are also
  important
• MARE seems unique by combining measures, economy,
  catchment and state/development in the sea, with
  a ecosystem, holistic and a large scale approach
• There are strong requirements to a system that
  set up priorities on measures and costs between
  countries

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• Important to give clear messages as
• NEST is a decision support system - not a
  decision system
• NEST provides overall average solutions both on
  measures and for the state in the Baltic Sea -
  not details on how and where!
• state in coastal areas are mainly dependent on
  local inputs - other information required!
• Threat results from NEST could be used as an
  excuse for doing nothing!

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• Requirements to MARE
• general acceptance by scientists and decision
  makers in the countries - recommended/used in
  many countries not a Swedish model
• open system possible to link with/include
  national detailed models, open for developing
  NEST in countries
• overall acceptance of the applied methodology
  important to develop the catchment and economical
  parts of NEST
• general acceptance of applied assumptions
• input data accepted/possible to change
• agreement on economical functions and results
• included more ecological target variables
  (EcoQOs)
• provide time lags, uncertainties, probability

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• easy available and good documentation
• easy and fast to use for both scientists and
  managers
• easy to make alternative scenarios
• results from NEST realistic, simple, easy to
  explain
• dont allow unrealistic scenario and solutions
• usable in relation to the WFD and EU Marine
  Strategy
• free of charge
• involve local scientists and decision makers in
  further development and institutionalisation of
  NEST
• institutionalisation should ensure that the
  system is updated and developed in future