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Management

Preface

Some years ago, contributions about other important nature areas, such as the Great Arctic Reserve (WSNL 1991 - No. 1) and The Wash/North Norfolk Coast (WSNL 1993 - No. 1), have been published in the WSNL. In this issue, this type of articles is being continued with the presentation on the elaboration of a management plan called "Strategic Plan" for the World Heritage Area "Great Barrier Reef" in Australia. Tim Cansfield-Smith, who also gave a lecture at the last International Scientific Wadden Sea Symposium on Norderney in Germany (see Recommendations in this WSNL-issue), introduces, impressively how all user and interest groups - called stakeholders - can be involved in the decision making process.

Involvements of stakeholders and co-management are new key-elements for the future and will surely be taken into account within the Ministerial Declaration of the next Trilateral Wadden Sea Conference. This important event will take place in Stade, Germany, on October 22, 1997. The main discussion items at the conference will be, among others, the draft Management Plan for the Wadden Sea and the further implementation of the Trilateral Monitoring and Assessment Program, TMAP.

Management aspects regarding salt marshes in the Wadden Sea countries and mussel fishery are being dealt with in several contributions in this WSNL-issue. An overview on the status of the implementation of the TMAP is given by the trilateral monitoring and the data handling coordinators, and, in more detail, developments regarding the parameters "Breeding Success" and "Seals" are presented.

Since November '96 the CWSS has a website: http://www.de/cwss/. From now on, you can read the WSNL also on the internet.

Editorial Board

Wilhelmshaven, April 1997