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Summary and discussion
YSLME RSC 2
Sinjae Yoo and Mingyuan Zhu
2/24-26/2010
Xiamen
• Review of SAP
• Review of presentations
in light of SAP
– What are the new findings?
– New priority issues
– Demonstration projects
• Future Directions in the 2nd phase
– How to incorporate new ideas
Fish catch
Overfishing
aquaculture
Provisioning
services
Genetic
resources
pollution
Habitat
modification
Primary and
secondary
production
Supporting
services
Maintenance
of
biodiversity
recreation
Cultural
services
Nutrient
cycling
Water
Quality
regulation
Unhealthy
Aquaculture
Regulating
services
Disease
control
Climate
change
Figure 2
biofuels
tourism
Climate
control
ECC
Reduction in fishing rate
Provisioning
Rebuilding depleted fish stocks
Improvements in mariculture tech.
Meeting Conventions on Pollution
Regulating
Reduction in contaminants loading
Reduction in polluting beaches
Reduction in littering
Cultural
Endangered/ endemic spp.
Maintain current habitats
Supporting
Reduce risks from introduced spp.
Prediction of ecosystem changes
Figure 3
YSLME SAP
• Eleven management targets
– Technical management actions
– Governance actions
– Indicators of management actions
• Economic Justification and Assessment
• Improving governance
– Institutional actions: creation of the YSLME
Commission
– Actions to improve effectiveness of legal
instruments
– Stakeholders’ wide participation
Timeline
• 2009. 11. SAP approved and co-signed
by DPRK, PRC, and ROK.
• 2010. 6. Proposal for 2nd phase project
will be submitted to GEF
• 2011. If approved, initiation workshop
will be held to make the work plan for
the 2nd phase (2011-2014)
Review of presentation
in light of SAP
Overall picture
• Impacts of global change on marine
ecosystem (Su)
• A changing ecosystem: the Yellow Sea
(Sun)
Target 1：25-30% reduction in
fishing effort
• Management Actions1-1: Control fishing boat numbers
- Effectiveness of fishing boat buyback programs on Korean
Yellow Sea stock status (Park)
• Management Action 1-2: Stop fishing in certain areas/
seasons
• Management Action 1-3: Monitor and assess stock
fluctuations
- Recent status of fisheries resources and ecosystem caused
by overfishing in the Yellow Sea (Lee)
- Fishery resources, fishery, and future prospect for the Yellow
Sea ecosystem (Shan)
- A study of physical environment impacts on anchovy
population dynamics in the Yellow Sea by individual-based
model (Wang)
Target 2：Rebuilding of overexploited fish stocks
• Management Action 2-1: Increase
mesh size
• Management Action 2-2: Enhance
stocks
• Management Action 2-3: Improve
fisheries management
- An integrated ecosystem-based approach
for assessing and forecasting impacts of
fisheries(Zhang)
Target 3: Improvement of mariculture
techniques to reduce environmental stress
• Management Action 3-1: Develop environmentfriendly mariculture methods and Technology
• Development of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture
in Sanggou Bay (Fang)
• Super-intensive shrimp culture using no-water
exchange (Jang)
• Management Action 3-2: Reduce nutrient discharge
• Management Action 3-3: Control diseases
effectively
Target 4. Meeting international
requirements on contaminants
• Management Action 4-1: Conduct intensive monitoring
and assessment
- Monitoring and assessment of atmospheric loads in the
Yellow Sea (Yao)
- Monitoring and estimation of land-based nutrient loads in
the Yellow Sea region: Methodology and case study (Zhang)
• Management Action 4-2: Control contaminants discharge
with reference to Codex alimentarius and Stockholm
Convention
• Management Action 4-3: Implementing MARPOL
1973/78 effectively
Target 5. Reduction of total loading
of nutrients from 2006 levels
• Management Action 5-1: Control total loading from
point sources
• Management Action 5-2: Control total loading from
non-point sources and seabased Sources
• Management Action 5-3: Apply new approaches for
nutrient treatment
- Degradation pathway of pyrene in Novosphingobium
pentaromativorans US6-1: Potential for bioremediation
of PAHs contaminated environment (Luo)
Target 6. Reduced standing stock of
marine litter from current level
• Management Action 6-1: Control source of litters
and solid wastes
• Management Action 6-2: Improve removal of
marine litter
• Management Action 6-3: Increase public awareness
of marine litter
Target 7. Reduce contaminants, particularly in
bathing beaches and other marine recreational
waters, to nationally acceptable levels
• Management Action 7-1: Conduct regular
monitoring, assessment and information
dissemination particularly in bathing beaches and
other recreational Waters
- Status and trend of coastal recreational waters in
Qingdao (Zhang)
• Management Action 7-2: Control pollution in
bathing beaches and other marine recreational
waters
Target 8: Better understanding and prediction of
ecosystem changes for adaptive management
• Management action 8-1: Assess and monitor the impacts
of N/P/Si ratio change
- Assessing the impacts of N:P:Si ratio change on the Yellow
Sea ecosystem (Fu)
- Satellite observation of 10 years eutrophication of Yellow Sea
(Ishizaka)
- Assessment of eutrophication status in Toyama Bay based on
the “Procedures for assessment of eutrophication status
including evaluation of land based sources of nutrients for
the NOWPAP region“ (Terauchi)
- Benthic indicators of eutrophication in the Yellow Sea (Zhang)
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Management action 8-2: Assess and monitor the impacts of
climate change
Recent warming in the Yellow and East China Sea during the boreal
winter (Yeh)
Recent warm climate change is good for Yellow Sea ecosystem (Hahn)
Marine biodiversity response to climate change: cases in China (Wen)
8-1 and 8-2
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Estimating primary production of the Yellow Sea (Yoo)
Assessment on phytoplankton quantity in the coastal area by using
remote sensing data (Ri)
The grazing pressure of dominant copepods on phytoplankton and
microbial food web in Gyeonggi Bay, the Yellow Sea (Choi)
Target 8: Better understanding and prediction of
ecosystem changes for adaptive management
(continued)
• Management action 8-3: Forecast ecosystem
changes in the long-term scale
– Model study on impacts of wave-mixing to vertical
distribution and time variation of phytoplankton in South
Yellow Sea (Liu)
– Summer upwelling in the Yellow Sea: The dynamics and
ecological implications (Lü)
• Management action 8-4: Monitor the
transboundary impact of jellyfish blooms
- Quantitative monitoring trial of Giant Jellyfish,
Nemopilema nomurai, in Yellow Sea (Lee)
• Management action 8-5: Monitor HAB occurrences
Target 9: Maintenance and improvement of
current populations/distributions and genetic
diversity of the living organisms including
endangered and endemic species
• Management Action 9-1: Establish and implement
regional conservation plan to preserve biodiversity
- One step at a time: Overcoming challenges to
conservation in the Yellow Sea (Moores)
Target 10: Maintenance of habitats according
to standards and regulations of 2007
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Management Action 10-1: Develop regional guidelines for coastal
habitat Management
Coastal and estuarine habitat loss and gain – repercussions for economic
and ecological goods and services (Elliott)
Protection and management of ecosystem in Korean West Bay (Song)
Changes in sociocultural condition and tidal flat in R. Korea (Kim)
Improving biodiversity conservation in Ganghwa tidal mud flat, Korea
(Park)
- Landscape changes during 1970-2007 in Yancheng Biosphere Reserve,
Jiangsu Province, China: Implications for biodiversity conservation(Zuo)
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Management Action 10-2: Establish network of MPAs
Management Action 10-3: Control new coastal reclamation
Management Action 10-4: Promote public awareness of the benefits
of biodiversity conservation
Target 11: Reduction of the risk
of introduced species
• Management Action 11-1: Control and monitor
ballast water discharge
• Management Action 11-2: Introduce precautionary
approach and strict control of introduction of nonnative species
Economic assessment
- Estimating the benefits of improving
environmental quality in the Ganghwa tidal flat
(Endo)
- Cost-benefit analysis of integrated multi-trophic
aquaculture (Zhu)
Governance
- Institutionalizing current efforts through
YSLME Commission (Chung)
- Legal improvements in fisheries saw
under the context of YSLME (Yu)
Stakeholder participation
- Stakeholder capacity and participation in
ecosystem recovery of Masan Bay (Lee)
- Requirements for widening partnership
for ecosystem-based management of the
Yellow Sea - With special focus on the
roles and needs of the NGOs (Tobai)
- One step at a time: Overcoming
challenges to conservation in the Yellow
Sea (Moores)
New findings and ideas
• Continue developing new management
tools
• Better outreaching
• More community-based approach
• Systematization of indicators
• Scientific understanding
– Circulation pattern
– Longterm records of eutrophication
– Remote sensing local algorithms
– How much of CRD enters YS?
Needs improvements in
• Fisheries data
Lessons from demo projects
• Problems and obstacles
• Suggestions for implementing SAP