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Seakeys Monitoring Working Group Workshop Report SeaKeys Monitoring Working Group Workshop Report By: Dr. Lara Atkinson1, Dr. Kerry Sink2, Ms. Hannah Raven1and Ms. Mari‐Lise Franken2 Maps by: Heather Terrapon2 August 2016 1 South African Environmental Observation Network, Egagasini, Cape Town 2 South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town SeaKeys Monitoring Working Group Workshop Report Workshop held 11th November 2015, SANBI Colophon room Table of Contents SEAKEYS PROJECT BACKGROUND ........................................................................................................................ 1 MONITORING WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES .............................................................................................................. 2 A) PRESENTATIONS FROM WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS: .............................................................................. 3 LARGE MOORING ARRAYS ................................................................................................................................................................... 3 ALGOA BAY SENTINEL SITE ................................................................................................................................................................. 4 INTEGRATED ECOSYSTEM PROGRAMME ........................................................................................................................................... 7 WASTE WATER OUTFALL MONITORING ............................................................................................................................................ 9 AQUACULTURE FACILITIES MONITORING FOR HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS.............................................................................. 12 LONG‐TERM INTERTIDAL MONITORING ......................................................................................................................................... 13 SANPARKS MARINE PROTECTED AREA MONITORING ............................................................................................................... 15 LINEFISH AND NETFISH ...................................................................................................................................................................... 18 MARINE REMOTE IMAGERY PLATFORM ......................................................................................................................................... 20 INVERTEBRATES AND FISH MONITORING ....................................................................................................................................... 21 SEABIRDS AND SEAL MONITORING .................................................................................................................................................. 26 BOAT BASED ACTIVITIES, INVERTEBRATES, TURTLE AND STRANDING MONITORING ........................................................... 27 CORAL BLEACHING MONITORING ..................................................................................................................................................... 29 DEMERSAL AND SMALL PELAGIC FISH ............................................................................................................................................ 30 B) MONITORING PROJECTS THAT WERE NOT PRESENTED ........................................................................ 32 FISH ABUNDANCE IN LANGEBAAN LAGOON ................................................................................................................................... 32 CAPE PENINSULA GALJOEN MONITORING ...................................................................................................................................... 33 DE HOOP MPA FISH MONITORING ................................................................................................................................................. 33 STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY MARINE LAB ROCKY SHORE MONITORING PROJECT ............................................................. 34 ESTUARY MONITORING ...................................................................................................................................................................... 35 C) MARINE MONITORING GAPS INDENTIFIED ................................................................................................ 35 APPENDIX A: LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ................................................................................................................ 37 APPENDIX B: METADATA TEMPLATE ................................................................................................................ 38 REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................................................. 39 A Geographical Information System (GIS) project depicting all station coordinates presented in this report, are available on the SANBI BGIS portal: http://bgis.sanbi.org/Projects/Detail/182 SeaKeys project background (presented by Kerry Sink) The SeaKeys project is a large collaborative three year marine research project (2013‐2016) involving 30 team members from more than 17 different organisations. The project aims to collate, increase and disseminate marine biodiversity information and support the application of this knowledge in monitoring, decision making and maintaining benefits from marine biodiversity for South Africans. This research project is funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa through the Foundational Biodiversity Information (FBI) Programme. The FBI Programme was developed in response to gaps and challenges in the knowledge base for South Africa’s biodiversity. The SeaKeys Project is the first large collaborative program funded through the FBI programme. The primary focus of the Programme is to generate, co‐ordinate and make accessible knowledge relevant to these “essential biodiversity variables”. This type of information is often referred to as “fundamental” or “foundational” because it forms the basis of so many other aspects of biodiversity research and decision‐making. These data sets are critical for ecosystem mapping, monitoring and reporting on the state of biodiversity, for sustainable use of biodiversity, and for understanding and mitigating the impacts of global change on biodiversity. Marine biodiversity knowledge lags behind that of other ecosystems for four main reasons: the environment is generally less accessible and more expensive to sample; many existing biodiversity data are not digitised or are inaccessible; capacity is limited with few mechanisms to engage civil society in the collection of primary marine biodiversity data; and data management and flow of information within the marine community is poorly co‐ordinated. Key knowledge gaps include research on habitat forming, resource, indicator and biosecurity species and ecosystems that deliver key services or are sensitive to impact. The SeaKeys project aims to unlock marine biodiversity knowledge to remedy this situation. South Africa’s emerging new policy and legslative framework for the oceans focuses on the development of Integrated Ocean Management especially beyond the coastal zone, the development of the ocean economy and the need for South Africans to derive sustainable benefits from our coastal and marine biodiversity. The development and implementation of a framework for Marine Spatial Planning is a key component of this new phase. Evidence‐based policy and management advice and new collaborations and improved co‐ordination are needed to support these developments. The SeaKeys project has five core objectives: 1. To develop new collaborations improving co‐ordination, management and dissemination of marine biodiversity data, information and knowledge. 2. To unlock priority marine biodiversity records through the collation, verification and digitisation of existing historical and un‐captured contemporary data and through citizen science initiatives. 3. To undertake genetic, species and ecosystem research to support systematics, ecosystem description and evidence‐based policy and management advice for priority taxa and ecosystems. 4. To ensure marine biodiversity data and knowledge is disseminated and applied through co‐ ordinated on‐line platforms and application of science based management and policy advice. 5. To pilot innovative capacity‐building, knowledge generation and information flow approaches to increase, improve and apply knowledge in marine resource and ecosystem management, monitoring, global change management and marine spatial planning. SeaKeys Monitoring Workshop Report – August 2016 1 To achieve these objectives 10 Working Groups were established under the SeaKeys project. One of which, a Monitoring Working Group, aimed to co‐ordinate and deliver monitoring outputs and advise on monitoring priorities and gaps. A workshop was held in Cape Town bringing together a sub‐set of researchers, representing nine organisations around the country, currently involved in some level of monitoring. This report, combined with the digital GIS project, serves to fulfil the Monitoring Working Group outputs for the SeaKeys Project. Monitoring Workshop objectives (presented by Lara Atkinson) The objectives of the SeaKeys Monitoring Workshop were outlined as the following; 1. Share information about marine monitoring initiatives in South Africa 2. Advance spatial mapping of monitoring projects 3. Identify and enable new collaborations, synergies and opportunities Participants
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