Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March Raising Awareness for Ocean Observations in Morocco Maria Snoussi Mohamed V University Faculty of Sciences, Rabat

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March NGOs? Decision makers? Users? Scientists? Has the Awareness for Ocean Observations raised in Morocco?

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March Rabat MedGOOS Workshop (1999) -All the steakholders -Scientists -NGOs Awareness Meeting

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March What Have been achieved? What are the ongoing or planned projects?

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March Monitoring the quality of waters bathing  325 sampling stations  86 beaches

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March Monitoring the quality of waters bathing Yearly Publications of the micro- biological quality of the bathing waters.

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March 2004

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March System of Positionning and monitoring fishing boats by satellite

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March Gendarmerie Royale Centre de commandeme nt Zone Sud Marine Royale Ministère des Pêches Maritimes Liaison spécialisée Liaison spécialisée passant par Londres X25

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March Benefits from this project  Its un automatic system (GPS & Inmarsat satellite)  Real-time information on the fishing fleet  Optimization of the use of patrol aircrafs and ships  Provide services for the marine professionals. Rapid intervention for rescue Watching navigation in national waters (Pyracy, security, etc.) Improving Management of fishery efforts Strengthening life safety at sea, etc. Possibility to add in the futur more sensors for monitoring other physico- chemical parameters.

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March Situation of Tide gauges implementation?  4 at the Atlantic coast and 2 at the Mediterranean side.  in 2005, Probably one more in Atlantic within the Odinafrica III project (GOOS WP), and one in the Mediterranean with the CIESM support.  Still not fully operational  Absence of coordination between different operators  Data still not free accessible

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March Networks Network of the Littoral Healthiness Watching (at 7 coastal stations : INRH) Med Pol Network (DE) National Plan for Combatting Accidental Marine Pollution (DE) Ports Monitoring & Dredging Programs for Navigation Safety (DPDPM).

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March Exchange of information through the Internet National Oceanographic Data and Information Centre (ODINAFRICA Project) Clearing House for Biodiversity Information

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March Conclusion Even we have not completely benefit from all MAMA WPs, due to internal problems (funds, visa, etc.) we have succeded in strengthening awareness of decision makers on the benefits of Operational Oceanography. This constitute an important step to force Ocean Observations in their agenda.

Final MAMA Meeting Tunis, 7- 9 March More than the Scientific Networking, the added value of MAMA is also the nice links «tissés » between all of us! Thank you Silvana, Aldo and all the WP leaders for your efforts Thanks EU Thanks everybody!