Welsh Marine Evidence Strategy 2019 - 2025 - a collaborative agenda for marine research, monitoring and analysis

1. Welsh Marine Evidence Strategy 2019 – 2025
A collaborative agenda for marine research, monitoring and analysis
Marine Evidence Conference 17th – 19th Sept

2. Introduction
• Why evidence?
• Why a strategy?
• What are the aims of
the strategy?
• What are the
evidence priorities for
Wales?
• How will the strategy
be implemented?
Decision
Policy
context
Science
and
evidence
Delivery

3. Why Evidence?
• WG and NRW decisions
include;
– Licensing
– Marine planning
– Fisheries and enforcement
– Trade
– Biodiversity and conservation
– Flood risk management
– Coastal access
– Climate change and
adaptation planning
• Wide evidence needs to
support decision making and
policy implementation

4. Why a strategy?
• National and
international policy
landscape
• External engagement
– Academia
– Industry
– Stakeholders and
evidence interest groups
• Resource to the marine
evidence community

5. Strategy aims
The Strategy’s specific purposes are to identify the high
level, strategic marine evidence priorities needed to
support marine policies and plans of the Welsh
Government and NRW through:
1. providing a framework to support the collection and
improved use of marine evidence
2. guiding the implementation, monitoring and review of
actions to meet evidence priorities
3. improving collaboration, co-ordination and sharing of
scientific knowledge among Wales’ marine evidence
stakeholders
4. helping align and develop Wales’ marine evidence
capacity and promote innovation.

6. Evidence
Sustainable
marine
economy
Strong,
healthy &
just society
Living within
environmental
limits
Promoting
good
governance
Using
sound
science
responsibly
Evidence
priorities

7. Marine Renewables
Aquaculture
Aggregates
Ports and Shipping
Coastal Tourism
Fisheries
Wider Supporting Evidence
Sustainable
marine
economy

8. Strong,
healthy &
just
society
Increasing community
resilience
Increasing access to the
marine environment
Coastal flooding and
erosion

9. Safeguarding marine
ecosystem resilience
Protect, conserve, restore
and enhance marine
ecosystems
Living within
environmental
limits

10. Sound
science Governance
Collaboration
Knowledge
exchange
Evidence
priorities
Promoting
good
governance
Using
sound
science
responsibly

11. Strategy implementation
• Wide engagement and communication
• Initiation of evidence ‘action planning’
• Convening of a Marine Evidence Panel
• Geospatial data strategy (Lle and Marine
Planning Portal)
• Develop coherent network of representation
at UK and international marine evidence
groups
• Biennial conference

12. Things to consider
• How well do you think evidence is shared
between organisations?
• Is the link between science and decision
making effective?
• What improvements should we consider
with regard to sharing and access to data?
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13. Diolch
Thank you