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Danish Wadden Sea

Sea basin

Country

Habitats: coastal/offshore

Single MPA or MPA network

Designation type

 Size (km2)

North East Atlantic Ocean

Denmark

Coastal

Single MPA

National park

1466 km²

Main pressures on the environment

 

Climate change

Fishing and Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing

Main Challenges

Public participation needs to be increased in this MPA and more actions need to be done towards public awareness raising. A significant challenge is to improve the current ecological conditions as well as improve the management of the land-sea interface.

Contact
 

University of Southern Denmark

  Cintia O. Quintana

cintia@biology.sdu.dk

 

 

 

H. Cecilie Petersen

cep@sdu.dk

Myriam  J. Perschke