Meldungen: Archiv

Conference Year of the dolphin in Europe 2007

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Reijnders, Peter J.H.

The North Sea Porpoise Conservation Plan: From concept to best practice

• There is no unequivocal need for a North Sea Harbour Porpoise Recovery Plan.
• The most constructive and efficient way to tackle problems faced by harbour por-poises is a tailor-made, area and problem focussed set of measures led down in a Conservation Plan.
• The umbrella EU-legislation is helpful in the conservation management of harbour porpoises in the North Sea, however, significant gaps therin need to be acknowl-edged and addressed by all Range States.
• Implementation of a Conservation Plan can only be successful if governmental and non-governmental organisations see a CP as their ownership and commit themselves individually to an implementation schedule.
• Recent developments in abundance and distribution of harbour porpoises in the wider North Sea, require renewed views on traditional management criteria such as stock boundaries, relevance of MPAs, population status.

Presentation: 17-Peter_J_H_Reijnders.pdf