IWRM: The Ridge-to-Reef

Approach to Ecosystem-
Based Fisheries Management
ATTY. RHEA YRAY-FROSSARD
Fisheries Management and Campaign Research
Manager Oceana
Ridge-to-Reef Approach
 Ecosystems Approach to
Good
Governance Fisheries Management
Social
Well-
being

Ecological
Well-being

Gombos et al. 2013 3

Environmental
Issues
 Deforestation
 Mangrove illegal logging
 Seagrass reclamation
 Coral reef sedimentation
Environmental
Issues
 Plastic pollution
 Seabed Quarrying
 Salt-water intrusion
 Over Fishing

Curb Pollution Reduce Bycatch

OCEANA
CAMPAIGNS

Increase Transparency Habitat Protection

TAKEAWAY
REFERENCES
• https://panorama.solutions/fr/building-block/ridge-reef-approach . 03 November 2017

• https://www.iucn.org/theme/water/our-work/current-projects/ridge-reef . Accessed 15 October 2021.

• What is Ridge to Reef? | SPC-R2R (pacific-r2r.org)

• Ecosystems approach to Fisheries Management according to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

• https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/insight/understanding-ecosystem-based-fisheries-management .

• Philippine Fisheries Code adopting the ecosystems-based approach (RA 8550 as amended by RA 10654).
Now.

• DA-BFAR FAO 263 for the conservation and management of Philippine waters – Fisheries Management
Areas.

• How an Activist Minister in Philippines Took On the Mining Barons - Yale E360.

• Oil Exploration and Extraction Threatens South American Mangrove Forests | Data and Research | Global
Forest Watch Blog.

• Dolomite beach now showing Manila Bay's 'true color' - Maharlika TV

• SEDIMENTATION & CORAL REEFS – Saving Coral Reefs (wordpress.com)

• Protecting Drinking Water from Saltwater Intrusion | WaterWorld.

• www.oceana.org.
ATTY. RHEA YRAY-FROSSARD
ryray-frossard@oceana.org
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