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«MARINE PROTECTED NATURAL AREAS»
MARINE PNAs AS A TOOL FOR NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
AND BIOLOGICAL MONITORING WORK
A workshop on Marine PNAs as a Tool of Natural Resource Management and Biological
Monitoring was held in Moscow on March 4—5, 2002.
Participants included representatives from St.-Petersburg (ÊÅ Association, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian State Museum of the Arctic and the Antarctic), Murmansk (Murmansk Marine Biological Institute) and Moscow (All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Nature, Shirshov Oceanography Institute, RAS Center of Ecology Law Research, Russian Center of the World Ocean, WWF Russian Office).
The following topics were covered:
- Marine PNAs Conceptual and Legal.
- Selection of protected marine natural areas in the Barents Sea.
- Scientific and methodology aspects of marine PNAs biodiversity monitoring.
A number of reports on these topics were made. As the authors noted, PNAs are not only resource reserves: their role in natural resource management and bio-monitoring remains one of the most significant arguments for developing a marine reserves network, especially in the Barents Sea. An analysis of national legislation done by A.A. Taranin (CEPI, RAS) showed that the protected marine area category has the full right to join Russia’s general PNA system. At the same time, since marine areas are under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation, marine zapovedniks, national parks and zakazniks can be only of federal significance.
As a result of discussions, priority regions for creating marine PNAs of various categories were determined in the Russian sector of the Barents Sea. Marine PNAs need to be set up in the southeastern part of the Barents Sea (the Pechorskoye Sea) most urgently of all.
The workshop participants agreed that in the near term it would be expedient to continue the work of creating a system of marine PNAs in the Karskoye Sea since an enormous amount of research has been done there in recent years.
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