What Is PSSA or Particularly Sensitive Sea Area

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What is PSSA or Particularly Sensitive Sea Area ?
A Particularly Sensitive Sea Area is an area that needs special protection through action by the IMO
because of its signi cance for recognized ecological or socio economic or scienti c reasons and which
may be vulnerable to damage by international maritime activities. The wadden sea is an exceptional
highly dynamic tidal ecosystem of global importance, which is sensitive to the import of international
shipping and other activities. The adjacent North sea is one of the worlds burriest areas in terms of
international shipping and therefore the wadden sea ful lls the criteria for a PSSA designation.
In Oct, 2002 the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime
Organization designated major parts of the dutch, German and danish wadden sea as a particularly
sensitive sea area (PSSA). The criteria for the identi cation of particularly sensitive sea area special area
are not mutually exclusive. In many cases a particular sensitive sea area may be identi ed within a special
area and vice versa.
Guidelines on designating a ‘particularly sensitive sea area (PSSA) if they ful ll a number of criteria
including ecological criteria, such as unique or rare ecosystem, diversity of the ecosystem or vulnerability
to degradation by natural events or human activities, social, cultural and economic criteria such as
signi cance of the area for recreation or tourism and scienti c and educational criteria such as biological
research or historical value.
When an area is approved as a PSSA, speci e measures can be used to control the maritime activities in
that area, such as routeing measures, strict application of MARPOL discharge and equipment
requirements for ships such as oil tankers and installation of vessel tra c services (VTS).
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List of adopted PSSA

1. The Great Barrier Reef, Australia, (1990)
2. The Sabana- Camaguey Archipelago in cuba, (1997)
3. Malpelo Island colombia, (2012)
4. The sea around the orida neys, United states (2002)
5. The wadden sea, Denmark, Germeny (2002)
6. Western Europenan, Spain.
7. The Baltic Sea Area
8. The strait of Bonifario, France & Italy.
9. Extension of Great barrier reef & torres strait to encompass South west part of the coral sea (2015)
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