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ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2007 64(4):599-602; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsm005
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© 2007 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Published by Oxford Journals. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The Norwegian ecosystem-based management plan for the Barents Sea

Erik Olsen1,, Harald Gjøsæter1, Ingolf Røttingen1, Are Dommasnes1, Petter Fossum1 and Per Sandberg2

1 Institute of Marine Research, PB 1870 Nordnes, N-5817 Bergen, Norway
2 Directorate of Fisheries, PB 2009 Nordnes, N-5817 Bergen, Norway

Correspondence to E. Olsen: tel: +47 55238606; fax: +47 55238531; e-mail: eriko{at}imr.no

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.

Keywords: area-based, EAF, ecosystem approach, management plan

Received 21 July 2006; accepted 9 January 2007; advance access publication 2 March 2007.


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