EU Action Plan: protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries

Tabled by Caroline Roose, Anja Hazekamp, Catherine Chabaud, Raphaël Glucksmann, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Marie Toussaint, Manon Aubry, Alviina Alametsä, François Alfonsi, Rasmus Andresen, Margrete Auken, Benoît Biteau, Michael Bloss, Saskia Bricmont, Reinhard Bütikofer, Damien Carême, Anna Cavazzini, Ignazio Corrao, David Cormand, Ciarán Cuffe, Rosa D’Amato, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, Karima Delli, Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg, Bas Eickhout, Malte Gallée, Claude Gruffat, Francisco Guerreiro, Henrike Hahn, Martin Häusling, Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, Ska Keller, Philippe Lamberts, Katrin Langensiepen, Lydie Massard, Erik Marquardt, Sara Matthieu, Tilly Metz, Hannah Neumann, Ville Niinistö, Grace O’Sullivan, Jutta Paulus, Piernicola Pedicini, Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, Manuela Ripa, Bronis Ropė, Mounir Satouri, Tineke Strik, François Thiollet, Kim Van Sparrentak, Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, Thomas Waitz, Sarah Wiener, Laura Ferrara, Karen Melchior, Pascal Durand, Christophe Clergeau, Pierre Larrouturou, Nora Mebarek, Sylvie Guillaume, Marina Mesure, Leila Chaibi, José Gusmão, Petros Kokkalis, Marisa Matias, Younous Omarjee, Anne-Sophie Pelletier, Malin Björk, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Helmut Scholz, Stelios Kouloglou, Özlem Demirel, Aurore Lalucq, Antoni Comín i Oliveres, Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó, Pär Holmgren, Alice Kuhnke, Jakop G. Dalunde, Patrick Breyer, Silvia Modig, Nikolaj Villumsen, María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos

Added: 13b. Regrets the fact that many Member States have designated a large number of MPAs over the past decades without paying sufficient attention to their level of protection and effective management; calls on EU Member States to consider redesigning their maps of MPAs on the basis of high-quality criteria and to build science-based ecological networks of effective and sufficiently protected areas, including no-take zones, that deliver positive results for oceans, fishers and society as a whole;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE756.735