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The SERMA Project: Surveillance & Enforcement of Remote Maritime Areas Maritime Business and Technology Summit San Diego, 17 Nov 2010. Jeff Ardron Director High Seas Program, Marine Conservation Biology Institute. The good ol’ days.
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The SERMA Project:Surveillance & Enforcement of Remote Maritime AreasMaritime Business and Technology Summit San Diego, 17 Nov 2010 Jeff Ardron Director High Seas Program, Marine Conservation Biology Institute
The good ol’ days... “...for the sea is of so vast an extent that it is sufficient for all the uses that nations can draw thence, either as to water, fishing, or navigation.” --Huig de Groot (1583-1645)
SERMASurveillance and Enforcement of Remote Maritime AreasWhat is remote?
US Pacific Marine National Monuments 334, 798 sq miles (867 123 km2) (Over twice the size of California)
Phoenix Islands Protected Area Second largest MPA in the world: 158,500sq mi (410 500 km2) …and also one of the most remote www.phoenixislands.org
The (initial) Problem… Can remote protected areas get adequate and affordable surveillance? The Answer: YES
New Problems, however... • Lack of coordination • Redundancy of efforts Solution: Stop the fisheries silo and exceptions (no AIS, no SOLAS, no registry, etc.) & Treat all maritime traffic the same… It is all part of Maritime Domain Awareness
Final ThoughtGliders: Intriguing low cost possibilities… Slocum Glider Liquid Robotics iRobot
Thank you! Jeff.Ardron@MCBI.org Rice & Ardron: CBD MPA Criteria