To improve Channel governance, it would be useful to look at other seas and the policies they use for their governance. For example, the Barcelona Convention focusing on the Mediterranean Sea and OSPAR on the Atlantic contains some policies and governance methods that could be used for the Channel. Discussions held during the forum indicated that often the spatial scale (i.e. local, regional, and national) dictates which issues are a priority in a particular situation and how they can be most readily solved.