The BCMCA project has received additional funding for a period ending May 2013 for product support, updates to select datasets, and support (if requested) to marine planning processes that are now underway. Additional communication and outreach are also planned to help people

understand and build trust in the data products and supporting analyses. Furthermore, the Project Team is interested in exploring tradeoffs and win-win solutions for human uses and conservation. The simple overlap analyses reported here were illustrative only; more sophisticated and informative analyses would be useful. For example, possible use of a sister tool of Marxan, Marxan with Zones [12], to develop trade-off curves VE-822 in vitro between different human uses and ecological features, is under discussion. This is one way to explore analysing and visualising selleck chemicals overlap amongst users and between human uses and biodiversity hotspots. We recognise and thank all the BCMCA Project Team participants and representatives on the Human Use Data Working Group for their thoughtful collaboration in steering the project (http://www.bcmca.net/data/atlas/). The BCMCA Project Team is grateful to the many people who participated in workshops, contributed data and knowledge and helped to steer this

work to completion. We also wish to thank the human use sectors for feedback on a draft version of this manuscript, especially Douglas Daugert and Michelle James. The BCMCA Thymidylate synthase is a project of Tides Canada Initiatives and this work would not have been possible without the funding support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF) Marine Conservation Initiative and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Other organisations who contributed funding include the David Suzuki Foundation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Living Oceans Society and the Royal Caribbean Oceans Fund. We also thank the Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association (PacMARA) for jointly hosting and funding the PacMARA/BCMCA international Marxan workshop. “
“Northeast Arctic (NEA) cod (Gadus morhua) is currently the world’s largest cod stock, distributed

from its feeding grounds in the Barents Sea to its spawning grounds off the Lofoten islands in the Norwegian Sea [1]. The fishery consists of two parts that are geographically separate: the feeding-ground fishery in the north and the spawning-ground fishery further south ( Fig. 1). Humans have been fishing on the spawning grounds for more than a thousand years, beginning with the export of cod during the Viking Age [2]. Until the 1930s, the spawning-ground fishery dominated catches, due to its proximity to coastal villages and ports. However, during the 1930s the advent of industrial fishing technology facilitated the expansion of the NEA cod fishery into the Barents Sea. This expansion led to a shift of catches toward the stock’s feeding grounds, as well as to an increase in the total fishing mortality ( Fig. 2a).