Translation of "Stock map " (English → French) :

(aa) the identification and mapping of areas, such as nursery grounds, coastal spawning areas, marine protected areas, Natura 2000 sites or fish stock recovery areas where intensive aquaculture activities should be excluded in order to maintain the role of such areas in the functioning of the ecosystem ;

Meanwhile, Member States' efforts to map and assess ecosystems and their services, and the ‘no net loss’ initiative planned in 2015 will contribute to maintaining the stock of natural capital.

It is obviously still early to assess what the outcome of these exercises and, more generally, of the discussions on the European Information Exchange Model will be (so far the ‘mapping exercise’ has only been presented by the Commission as a ‘stock-taking exercise’).

14. Agrees with the Commission on the need to adopt an ecosystem-based approach for this type of fisheries, whilst warning that the measures must have a minimum level of credibility and must not be applied wholesale but on the basis of environmental impact assessments, so as to avoid zones being closed where there is no risk, while closing zones to bottom fisheries where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known or likely to exist or where fish stocks are outside safe biological limits; research relating to the mapping of the seabed, interaction between the characteristics that make ...[+++] up ecosystems and the natural resources of the oceans must be a priority if the aim is for the new European maritime policy to become a reality;

Agrees with the Commission on the need to adopt an ecosystem-based approach for this type of fisheries, whilst warning that the measures must have a minimum level of credibility and must not be applied wholesale but on the basis of environmental impact assessments, so as to avoid zones being closed where there is no risk, while closing zones to bottom fisheries where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known or likely to exist or where fish stocks are outside safe biological limits; research relating to the mapping of the seabed, interaction between the characteristics that make ...[+++] up ecosystems and the natural resources of the oceans must be a priority if the aim is for the new European maritime policy to become a reality;

14. Agrees with the Commission on the need to adopt an ecosystem-based approach for this type of fisheries, whilst warning that the measures must have a minimum level of credibility and must not be applied wholesale but on the basis of environmental impact assessments, so as to avoid zones being closed where there is no risk, while closing zones to bottom fisheries where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known or likely to exist or where fish stocks are outside safe biological limits; research relating to the mapping of the seabed, interaction between the characteristics that make ...[+++] up ecosystems and the natural resources of the oceans must be a priority if the aim is for the new European maritime policy to become a reality;