Member States shall therefore make use of the EMFF to support efforts to improve data collection and strengthen control, and ensure that synergies are also sought in support of the priorities of Integrated Maritime Policy, such as marine knowledge, maritime spatial planning, integrated coastal zone management, integrated maritime surveillance, the protection of the marine environment and of biodiversity, and the adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change on coastal areas.

D. whereas fisheries are one of the main human activities carried out in the marine environment, contributing to the availability of food supplies and having tremendous importance, especially for certain coastal communities, and are thus an essential element of the Integrated Maritime Policy; whereas it should be recalled that fishing activities often have significant adverse impacts on marine ecosystems, owing to the variety and quantity of the fish stocks exploited; whereas fisheries are also the sector most affected by the many uses and activities taking place in the marine environment, such ...[+++] as maritime transport and tourism, or urban and coastal development, marine pollution, extractive industries and renewable energies, whose impacts may be cumulative with those resulting from fishing activities;

D. whereas fisheries are one of the main human activities carried out in the marine environment, contributing to the availability of food supplies and having tremendous importance, especially for certain coastal communities, and are thus an essential element of the Integrated Maritime Policy; whereas it should be recalled that fishing activities often have significant adverse impacts on marine ecosystems, owing to the variety and quantity of the fish stocks exploited; whereas fisheries are also the sector most affected by the many uses and activities taking place in the marine environment, such ...[+++] as maritime transport and tourism, or urban and coastal development, marine pollution, extractive industries and renewable energies, whose impacts may be cumulative with those resulting from fishing activities;

10. Stresses the importance of mangrove, seagrass meadows, salt marshes and kelp forests as high-performing carbon sinks; warns of the rapid destruction of these coastal ecosystems due, inter alia, to increasing demand for seafood from aquaculture; calls for a marine equivalent of the REDD scheme to safeguard coastal and marine ecosystems as carbon sinks;

Since programmes of measures executed under marine strategies will be effective only if they are devised on the basis of a sound knowledge of the state of the marine environment in a particular area and are tailored as closely as possible to the needs of the waters concerned in the case of each Member State and from the general perspective of the marine region or subregion concerned, provision should be made for the preparation at national level of an appropriate framework, including marine research and monitoring oper ...[+++]ations, for informed policymaking.

Coastal waters, including their seabed and subsoil, are an integral part of the marine environment, and as such should also be covered by this Directive, in so far as particular aspects of the environmental status of the marine environment are not already addressed through Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy or other Community legislation, so as to ensure complementarity while avoiding unnecessary overlaps.