The conditions for success

AuthorPascal Lamy - Peter Heffernan - Klara Ramm - Boyan Slat - Antidia Citores - Darko Manakovski - Tiago Pitta e Cunha - Valentin Moldoveanu - Lowri Evans - Aristomenis Karageorgis - Alan Deidun - Gesine Meissner - Lea Kauppi - François Galgani - Maria Cristina Pedicchio - Geneviève Pons
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As regards fisheries, effective management is the best conservation. The EU
should lead global efforts to ensure that all aquatic ecosystems will be
assessed and managed on the basis of the ecosystem approach. Given the
livelihood and food security pressures in many developing regions,
sustainability challenges need to be addressed with measures that move
beyond protection targets. All fisheries partnership agreements involving the
EU should be compatible with sustainable management of fish stocks, protect
marine biodiversity and be fair and equitable. International and regional
governance mechanisms should be reinforced. Further support to strengthen
and reinforce accountability of Regional Fisheries Bodies and Regional
Fisheries Management Organisations in pursuit of these goals is essential.
Coordinated global capacity building programmes to significantly improve
fisheries sustainability is critical in this regard, with specific focus on regions
where achieving sustainability is challenging, or wh ere fisheries sustainability
status is unknown, with particular attent ion to data-limited fisheries in
developing regions. Finally, the EU bilateral trade agreements should condition
market access to elimination of IUU fishing and fulfilment of international
fisheries agreements, starting in 2025, at the latest. The EU should support
the adoption by the WTO of strong subsidies disciplines with a solid notification
and monitoring process and appropriate de minimis clauses.
4 THE CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESS
The systemic and cross-cutting character of the Mission and it s high level of
ambition involves deep, long-term structural transformations. This will require
support from society as a whole and strong socio-economic adaptations. Its
success also relies on the EU’s capacity to innovate and discover new grounds.
All this means that a strong implementation plan is necessary.
4.1 Powerful engagement with society
Knowing, restoring and protecting our ocean and waters is a s hared
responsibility, individually and collectively. The proposed targets address variable
audiences, depending on their specificity, but overall, they engage a wide range
of actors: pu blic authorities at all levels (local, regional national, European), all
sectors of the blue e conomy, civil society organisations, scientific and cultural
entities. They should all feel responsible for its success, and crucially, be
supported by citizens.
For this, a powerful engagement with society will be necessary. It should address
and engage all sectors of the blue economy as well as scientists, artists, authors,
educational media and filmmakers to captivate relevance of Mission objectives in
all its forms and champion excitement in the exploration, protection and
restoration of Europe’s ocean and water systems.
The arts and culture sectors can play a major role to bridge the knowledge
and emotional g ap between European citizens and the oceans and freshwaters.
But it is imperative to go beyond explaining the state of the hydrosphere as it is.
There must also be a creative and inspirational re-imagining of what the human-
hydrosphere relationship could be.

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