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AN EXPERT AND CHANGING THE TRAJECTORY
COLLABORATIVE VISION OF OCEAN CRISES

Romain Troublé, Director of the Tara Ocean Founda- Doing more, in a more targeted and coordinated
tion, convinced the attendees of the need to create manner, changing perspectives by promoting Na-
stronger and collaborative policies, as well as new ture-based Solutions, considering a global ocean and
tools. Experts agreed on the need to support ambi- regional ocean management, or a global fisheries sur-
tious protection goals, putting the protection of marine veillance platform… This is the approach developed
areas (High Seas, deep seas, marine protected areas) in this transdisciplinary workshop which suggests, by
before any operational issues. The creation of science- generating ideas, to offset the “imagination crisis” we
based ocean management with “a holistic perspec- are experiencing, as diagnosed by Markus Reyman,
tive which allows the management of biodiversity, fish Director of the cultural NGO Academy TBA21, advo-
stocks, minerals, energy, carbon and contaminants” cating social and environmental justice.
was encouraged by Lisa Levin, Director of the Centre
for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography in California.
5 SOLUTIONS IDENTIFIED FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE OCEAN
An overview was made on geopolitical issues in the
Antarctic and Mediterranean challenges in terms of 1. Make sea protection the norm rather than the exception
marine protected areas. In Vladimir Ryabinin’s opinion,
Executive Secretary of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental 2. Generalise the digital management of large fish populations
Oceanic Commission, this type of high-potential colla- 3. Implement agreements to end public funding for overfishing
borative process may contribute to “codesigning” the
Ocean Decade. 4. Consider, in political decisions, microplastics like radioactive
waste in the past
5. Set up regional ocean management organisations