OCEAN METISS PROJECT Maritime Spatial Planning In the South-Western Indian Ocean Basin KICK-OFF MEETING BRUSSELS, 6-7th of February, 2018
FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF MARITIME ECONOMY IN THE SWIO BASIN Photo credits ; Réunion Première, Ile de la Réunion Tourisme, FranceTVInfo, Pinterest, IPReunion, IRD
AREA OF INTEREST Seychelles Comoros Mauritius TAAF La Réunion (France) (France) Existing projects or projects in progress Planned projects
PROJECT BACKGROUND ● Area of 72 million km² ● Mostly insular states, highly dependent on maritime / blue economy ● Not yet considered as a particular sea basin area according to the EU (part of the Outermost Regions Basin) ● Spatially puzzled MSP initiatives with various objectives (conservation, economic development...) ● Highly exposed to natural and ecological risks ● Besides the « traditional » activities (fishery, aquaculture, coastal tourism…) new emerging activities with a great economic potential might be developped ● Rich biodiversity to be preserved ● MSP EU directive is partially transposed in France → shared attributions between competent authorities ● Parallelly, France is working on the Strategic Document of the Sea Basin (DSBM)
THE PROJECT LIFECYCLE / GOALS Inventory on ressources and needs, prospective studies, trade off analysis... SWOT : Horizontal matrix Completion of on threaths, risks data, activity and conflicts of mapping, use / Analysis of inventory of legal background planned / ongoing projects Identification / realisation of new projects Complete, Evaluation of integrated development status report potentials Might influence public policies to create a sustainable, integrated, long-term strategy for the SWIO Basin New, strategic Definition of cross- indicators, data collection and sectoral analysis planning tool
IMPLEMENTATION SCALE ● Actions are going to be implemented integrating three main maritime areas : Proximity scale Medium scale Large scale Territorial / Onshore zone contigous zones Contiguous zone French International and EEZ of and territorial Monitoring actions by EEZ waters surrounding waters the French State Island States 0-12 nm 12-22 nm Max 200 nm
PROJECT COMPONENTS Structuration of the actions around three main components : COMPONENT 2 Management and coordination Status report Dedicated project website (and (ongoing projects, extranet) database analysis...) COMPONENT 1 COMPONENT 3 Data collection and Support to develop Communication and International mid- sharing term conference MSP dissemination Informative booklet Analysis of related legal framework Situation analysis and Opening and closing conference strategy for the sustainable (presentation of goals and project development of the basin achievements)
PROJECT STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE
THE OCEAN METISS CONSORTIUM Links & networking with other MSP Projects SGAR Région Réunion (French State University of Réunion Project Coordinator Australia Representative) Team of project referent France Team of Researchers of 3 Project Tanzania and associated experts LAB (ENTROPIE + Coordination / (coordination) ESPACE DEV + CRJ ) Management Team US (California) LOCAL DECENTRALISED 3 post-doctoral researchers SEAS OI PLATFORM INSTITUTIONS and 1 geomatics engineer South Africa GIS DMSOI, DEAL, DRRT... Indian Ocean Commission / Technical support France Seychelles Coordination with other EU funded projects (ERDF/ • Local INTERREG / EDF) Comoros Mauritius experts and Grand Observatory of the Indian Ocean (G2OI) • IOC Energies • stakeholders Biodiversity • SMARTFISH Madagascar • MASE... • Implication of local stakeholders in WG sessions
Dedicated STEERING COMMITTEE project 1-2 sessions / year website Strategic decisions (based on technical and scientific notice issued by the monitoring committee Members : Prefect of the Réunion / SGAR, President or VP of the Regional Council, President or VP of the Publication ● of strategic University of Réunion, EASME, EU Commission Representative. decisions Publication ● DIGITAL WORKSPACE of WG MONITORING COMMITTEE Session results 3 to 4 sessions / year General Treats technical ans scientific issues identified by sectoral / cross-sectoral working groups. ● informations Gives technical and scientific notice upstream needed for strategic issues on the Members : WG coordinators, relevant experts / staff of consortium members, Post-doc. researchers, other project stakeholders if necessary Discussion ● Forums Identification and transmission of sectoral issues to the Monitoring Committee. The Monitoring Committee may rely on WG members and experts for further technical expertise Common Cross-sectoral Working Group 6 – Cooperation and Networks Coordination/ Animation : Région Réunion + SGAR + University of Réunion Workspace Cross-sectoral Working Group 5 – Risks, Threats and Conflicts of Use Working Coordination/ Animation : Région Réunion + SGAR + University of Réunion documents and session reports Cross-sectoral Working Group 4 – Legal and Societal Environment are to be Coordination/ Animation : Région Réunion + SGAR + University of Réunion published in the Sectoral Working Group 1 Sectoral Working Group 2 Sectoral Working Group 3 common Biodiversity / Écosystème / Sustainable development of Reseach and innovation workspace Energy economic activities Coordination / Animation – SGAR + University of Réunion Coordination / Animation - IOC Coordination / Animation – Région Réunion
WORK PACKAGES
WP 1 - Biodiversity – Ecosystems - Energy Main steps : Collecting and assembling raw data to describe the biophysical system ➢ Mapping and analysing habitats, species distribution, and key biophysical processes ➢ Identifying different species (fish resources, fish migration tracking, sea mammal ➢ population…) Examples : Sectoral WG - Relation between fish stock variation and sea temperature ➢ Coordinated / Animated Research studies on sea mounts biodiversity ➢ by the IOC Identification of renewable energy stocks and exploitable mineral resources ➢ Expected results : Working sessions held ● alternately in Mauritius and Réunion Precision and completion of existing dataset ➢ Actions implemented under ● Implementation of a new and efficient measure system allowing to estimate ➢ the present WP are highly potentials for a sustainable, ecosysteme-based economic development – links with based on results and best MAES EU OR Projects (MOVE, ECOPOTENTIAL...) practices deriving from past and on-going projects co- Setting up action plans for the conservation of the marine and coastal biodiversity ➢ funded by other EU funds. Identification of the potential of emerging activities (renewable energies, sea mine ➢ ressources…) Identification of threats, risks and conflicts of use to be ➢ treated under WP 5
WP 2 - Sustainable Development of Blue Economy Main goal : identification and enhancement of economic activities : Economic development of fisheries, sustainable management of fish resources ➢ Development of the aquaculture sector (research actions, activity and dite improvement…) ➢ Development of tourism – sea resort and leisure activities, shark risk management, ➢ ecotourism Connectivity between the islands (maritime trafic, cruises, related portuary facilities, ➢ shipbuilding industry, digital connectivity…) Identification end exploitation of renewable energies, seabed mining resources, circular Sectoral WG - ➢ economy... Coordinated / Animated by the Région Réunion Expected results : Vaste field of activities are ● concerned (shark risk Complete mapping and analysis of the current economic activities ➢ management, touristic Analysis of the economic and human potential to improve the economic efficiency of ➢ activities lagoon and coral the current and the emerging activities reef environment, fishing…) Analysis of the existing infrastructure, capacities, and improvement needs and ➢ opportunities Links are to be established Setting up a strategy for attribution of new exploitation zones (for exemple RME) ● ➢ by the WP 1 (impacts, Propositions for the creation of pilot sites and enhancement of new pilot projects ➢ conflicts of use…) Preparation of an upgraded inventory of coastal zones and prospective studies on ➢ development potentials In coherence with the ● Identification of threats, risks and conflicts of use ➢ foundation of the « Blue to be treated under WP 5 Institute » gathering all local stakeholders of blue economy issues.
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