DAM pilot mission: Exclusion of mobile bottom-contact fishing in marine protected areas of the German EEZ of the North Sea and Baltic Sea (MGF North Sea and MGF Baltic Sea)

DAM Pilotmission Ost

DAM pilot mission: Exclusion of mobile bottom-contact fishing in marine protected areas of the German EEZ of the North Sea and Baltic Sea (MGF North Sea and MGF Baltic Sea)

The German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North and Baltic Seas includes ten Natura 2000 areas. The term Natura 2000 refers to a coherent network of protected areas within the European Union. Together with the Birds Directive, the so-called Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive regulates the protection of endangered wild plants and animals in their natural habitats in the Natura 2000 areas. Since September 2017, the ten marine Natura 2000 areas of the EEZ have been nationally protected as nature reserves by six reserve-regulations. Marine nature reserves are reported internationally as marine protected areas (MPA). Overall, the MPAs “Doggerbank”, “Borkum Riffgrund” and “Sylter Außenriff – Östliche Deutsche Bucht” cover an area of ​​7,920 km² and thus approx. 28 percent of the North Sea's EEZ. The MPAs in the EEZ of the Baltic Sea "Fehmarnbelt", "Kadetrinne" and "Pommersche Bucht - Rönnebank" have a combined area of ​​2472 km², which is around 55% percent of the much smaller EEZ in the Baltic Sea.

March, 2020

February, 2023

260000

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BMBF /

Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (IOW), Germany

Stefan Sommer

University of Rostock, Germany
University of Cologne, Germany
German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Germany
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Germany
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Germany
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Germany

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