BIOMARES global objective is to help "make the ocean great again". Its approach is based on assessing the importance of each of the anthropic impacts and by raising global awareness on anthropic impacts and illustrating the poor state of the oceans life. BIOMARES organize conferences, movies screenings about each of the ocean anthropic impacts. BIOMARES screenings are often followed by public debates, like on Overfishing for example. BIOMARES assess the state of Marine biodiversity worldwide and analyses the UN objectives on biodiversity (CBD-Aichi targets, UN SDG 14). By comparing them with the current state of the oceans life, we identify possible gaps. BIOMARES will showcase the current state of world corals by screening the movie "Chasing Coral's" to the public in Belgium. The world premiere of "Chasing coral's" will be on Netflix on July 14, 2017.
BIOMARES seeks and proposes solutions to improve the state of the ocean and use a rational approach based on the mitigation of main anthropic impacts on the ocean. BIOMARES use a long term approach to evaluate the reference line of what is a healthy ocean. BIOMARES has world experience on ocean fisheries and on global marine biodiversity issues. BIOMARES propose to use its experience to help identify solutions for the recovery of World Ocean. BIOMARES regularly write articles on ocean and marine biodiversity issues linked to climate change. Climate change is now a major anthropic impact, affecting in particular, the ocean. This was recently proved by the mass bleaching and dye off of corals worldwide. Next to other impacts, like overfishing, many kinds of pollutions, ecosystems destructions, climate change may well be now the final blow for threatened species and push thousands of marine species on the Red list of threatened species. This was illustrated by the mass mortality of Coral in 2016 and 2017. Corals dye off is threatening up to 25% of world Marine biodiversity. In tropical countries, corals constitute the great majority of marine biodiversity (up to 90%) and his major source of livelihood for poor artisanal fishermen and their food security. The massive dye off of corals, now also puts many of those poor fishermen in danger of disappearance. Remember, fish as always been the protein of the poor.
Progress reports
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
Type of commitment
- Other (please specify): Enhance dialogue between climatologists and Marien biologist on the impact of climate change on the ocean's life.
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
Type of commitment
- Other (please specify): Asees the global impact of fiheries on ocean biodiversity using a long term approach and a base line reference of
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
Type of commitment
- Other (please specify): Promote the creation of MPA's as a tool to enhance marine biodiversity and fisheries
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
Type of commitment
- information relating to harmful subsidies
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
Type of commitment
- Economic benefits from sustainable fisheries
- Economic benefits from sustainable aquaculture/mariculture
- Economic benefits from marine renewable energy
- Other : Show case examples of good management of tropical ressoruces on a sustainable basis ( lobsters, magrove crabs, etc..)..)
Staff / Technical expertise
Documentary on overfishing and technical expertise by fsiheries biologist
Staff / Technical expertise
Film documentary
Staff / Technical expertise
Review of the State of Marine Biodiversity, expertise by technical expert marine biologist
July 2017
