BHI 2.0: should any other goals or subgoals be added/revised/split/removed?

[eleanorecc]

The BHI1.0 included:

Goal	Subgoal	Goal Name	Subgoal Name
AO		Artisanal Fishing Opportunity
BD	SPP	Biodiversity	Species
CS		Carbon Storage
CW	CON	Clean Water	Contaminants
CW	EUT	Clean Water	Eutrophication
CW	TRA	Clean Water	Trash
FP	FIS	Food Provision	Wild-caught Fisheries
FP	MAR	Food Provision	Mariculture
LE	ECO	Livelihoods & Economies	Economies
LE	LIV	Livelihoods & Economies	Livelihoods
NP		Natural Products
SP	ICO	Sense of Place	Iconic Species
SP	LSP	Sense of Place	Lasting Special Places
TR		Tourism & Recreation

[eleanorecc]

General consensus: develop existing goals more, rather than adjusting or adding new ones

Suggestions we've received on things to develop:

• Aspects of habitat quality (include HAB as well as SPP subgoals of Biodiversity?)
• Perhaps focus on habitats that act as nurseries, spawning/reproduction areas or migration routes ('lifecycle maintenance')
• Additional species, alternative ways to address biodiversity goal
• Include food web aspects
• Non-native species
• Marine traffic (we could include this as a pressure layer)
• Artificial solid substrata (ports, marinas, gas/oil pipelines, electricity cables, wind mills etc.)
• Missing something on 'biological regulation' (control of pests and pathogens, spread of viruses and non-natives) but would not have adequate spatial resolution of information
• Possibility to include sand and gravel extractions, under natural products?

[tblen]

From Andrea Belgrano: I’m agree with the comments/suggestions so far, regarding further considerations on how to expand existing goals these are my thoughts:

i) for Biodiversity we could think about trying to capture a more functional approach as for example using trophic guilds (also one of the current ToRs in our ICES WGBIODIV work in progress) I’m attaching a conceptual review from TREE as an example for generating new ideas. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.03.014

Ii) think more about how to capture explicitly ecosystem services and in particular also cultural ecosystem services

iii) link to the SDGs goals and how the BHI can be used for highlighting gaps and proposed actions.