Seafish comments on Biodiversity 2020 indicators

24 November 2011

Seafish's Marine Environmental Legislation Expert Group (MELEG) has commented on the Biodiversity 2020 technical document Biodiversity 2020: Developing indicators for measuring success. MELEG commented on:

• the use of the proportion of large size classes of fish in surveys from the North Sea as a measure of capacity to sustain long-term fisheries;
• integration of biodiversity into key production sectors;
• the notion that the UK should bring in protection for a far larger proportion of its marine waters than the 10% suggested by the Convention on Biodiversity 2010; and
• pollution-reducing initiatives.

The MELEG response is available here: /media/publications/Response_Nov_2011.pdf