CCAMLR adopts the Ross Sea marine protected area
After years of blocked proposals, the Commission agrees by consensus to a marine protected area in the Ross Sea region, entering into force at the end of 2017 and covering something over one and a half million square kilometres. It is the largest such designation agreed anywhere, and it was reached under the same consensus rule that had prevented it for years - which is the honest account of what a consensus body can and cannot do.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources · organisation · Southern Ocean · not located
- Southern Ocean · maritime region · Circumpolar, south of roughly 40°S · not located
- Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba) · species · Southern Ocean - circumpolar, south of the Antarctic Polar Front · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
CCAMLR manages Southern Ocean living resources on an ecosystem basis, requiring that harvesting take account of dependent and related species rather than of the target stock alone, and decides by consensus. The Ross Sea region marine protected area was adopted in October 2016 and entered into force at the end of 2017. V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: no source was opened during production - this session had no network access and no remaining search budget. Area figures for the Ross Sea MPA and current krill catch limits are deliberately not quoted.
CCAMLR Secretariat, Hobart · 1980-05-20 (adopted); in force 1982 · Partly verified
Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, Canberra, 20 May 1980; text and Commission records published by the CCAMLR Secretariat at https://www.ccamlr.org/
Recorded on Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
- The factory ship Lancing takes a stern slipway south
- The Antarctic blue whale catch reaches its all-time peak
- CCAMLR is agreed at Canberra
- The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
- A long-term decline in krill density is linked to winter sea ice
- Dedicated Antarctic Blue Whale Project voyages
- CCAMLR adopts the Ross Sea marine protected area
- Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens
- The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data
- Antarctic sea ice reaches a record low, a year after the previous one
- Antarctic meltwater is projected to slow the abyssal cell
- A physics-based early warning signal is proposed
Related
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- A physics-based early warning signal is proposed · 2024-02
- The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data · 2023
- Antarctic sea ice reaches a record low, a year after the previous one · 2023-02
- Antarctic meltwater is projected to slow the abyssal cell · 2023
- Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens · 2021-11
- Dedicated Antarctic Blue Whale Project voyages · 2013, 2015, 2019
- A long-term decline in krill density is linked to winter sea ice · 2004
- The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted · 1994