UK Marine Monitoring and Assessment Strategy
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UKMMAS – a new way of marine monitoring and assessment.
The overall aim of the United Kingdom Marine Monitoring and Assessment Strategy (UKMMAS) is to shape the UK’s capability, within National and International waters, to:
"provide, and respond, within a changing climate, to, the evidence required for sustainable development within a clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse marine ecosystem and within one generation to make a real difference."
The UKMMAS consists of a high level, policy-lead, Marine Assessment Policy Committee (MAPC), supported by a technical Marine Assessment and Reporting Group (MARG). A number of working groups exist to undertake certain tasks on behalf of the committee and report directly to MARG.
- Clean and Safe Seas Evidence Group (CSSEG)
- Healthy and Biologically Diverse Seas Evidence Group (HBDSEG)
- Productive Seas Evidence Group (PSEG)
- Marine Protocols Group (MPG)
- Inter-Agency Aerial Monitoring Group (IAMG)
UKMMAS Committees
Marine Assessment Policy Committee (MAPC)
At the top of the UKMMAS structure is the MAPC whose main function is to define the policy requirements for the UKMMAS and provide direction to the Marine Assessment and Reporting Group (MARG).
Marine Assessment and Reporting Group (MARG)
The purpose of MARG is to decide how best to carry out assessments to fulfil policy requirements with existing resource and scientific knowledge, direct the implementation of suitable programmes, review the outcomes and assessments and suggest changes to monitoring programmes when necessary.
Further information on UKMMAS.
Contact
UKMMAS.secretariat@defra.gsi.gov.uk
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22 October 2007
Page published: 25
October 2005