2021
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.668253
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The Sargasso Sea Commission: An Evolving New Paradigm for High Seas Ecosystem Governance?

Abstract: The Sargasso Sea is to be found within the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre. Its borders are the major ocean currents. These boundaries shift with these currents, but there is a core area that covers approximately 2 million square nautical miles situated around the Bermuda archipelago, the majority of which is beyond the national jurisdiction of any State. Ten governments have now signed the 2014 Hamilton Declaration on Collaboration for the Conservation of the Sargasso Sea, which mandated the Government of Ber… Show more

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“…Against this background is it possible to make an assessment of the extent to which the 2012 identification of the Sargasso Sea as an EBSA has assisted the Sargasso Sea Commission with its goal of putting conservation measures in place for the Sargasso Sea though collaboration with the existing sectoral organizations. Others have reviewed the work of the Commissionand its predecessor the SSAsince 2010 (Freestone, 2016;Freestone, 2021;Gjerde and Varmer, 2021).…”
Section: The Impact Of the Sargasso Sea Ebsa Descriptionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Against this background is it possible to make an assessment of the extent to which the 2012 identification of the Sargasso Sea as an EBSA has assisted the Sargasso Sea Commission with its goal of putting conservation measures in place for the Sargasso Sea though collaboration with the existing sectoral organizations. Others have reviewed the work of the Commissionand its predecessor the SSAsince 2010 (Freestone, 2016;Freestone, 2021;Gjerde and Varmer, 2021).…”
Section: The Impact Of the Sargasso Sea Ebsa Descriptionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The UN Development Programme (UNDP)will act as the implementing agency and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO will be the executing agency. The final documentation was approved in May 2022 and work will start later in the second half of 2022 (Freestone, 2021). The Summary Science Case (Laffoley et al, 2011), the successful EBSA proposal (CBD, 2012b) and the two UN World Ocean Assessments (Freestone et al, 2016b;Roe et al, 2021) constitute an important baseline for the forthcoming work.…”
Section: Looking Forwardmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Despite these challenges, the LME-approach may offer a valuable model for advancing ecosystem-based management at a bio-regional scale entirely within or including ABNJ, if prior LME-specific and wider polycentricity lessons are applied. The first experiment with an LME-style project for ABNJ is now underway in the Sargasso Sea as the GEF has recently approved a project for improving science-based management and stewardship in the region (Freestone, 2021).…”
Section: Large Marine Ecosystemsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Organizing such bodies will prove challenging. However, the example of the Sargasso Sea Commission shows that some progress can be made by relying upon several entities to fulfill different parts of an overall mandate (Freestone, 2016(Freestone, , 2021.…”
Section: Role For Regional Organizationsmentioning
confidence: 99%