rodney forster centre for environment, fisheries and aquaculture science (cefas) lowestoft, uk...
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Rodney Forster
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)
Lowestoft, UK
Products from the EMECO Products from the EMECO North Sea Observatory: North Sea Observatory: an EU policy perspectivean EU policy perspective
To put in place measures to achieve Good Environmental Status in Europe’s seas by 2020
‘Good Environmental Status means the environmental status of marine waters where these provide ecologically diverse and dynamic oceans and
seas which are clean, healthy and productive within their intrinsic conditions, and the use of the marine environment is at a level that is sustainable, thus safeguarding the potential for uses and activities by
current and future generations...’
What does the Directive commit us to?
What are the regional requirements?
OSPAR currently reviewing its priorities to ensure it supports the delivery of the Directive
“Member States sharing a marine region...shall cooperate to ensure that... the measures required to achieve...this Directive...are coherent and coordinated across the marine region...”
UK keen to use the Oslo and Paris Convention (OSPAR) as the forum to deliver all key regional elements of the Directive
2008 20202010 2012 2014 2015 2016
Directive transposed
Initial assessment of UK seas
GES defined, including targets
and indicators
Monitoring programme established
Programme of measures
implemented
GES achieved for UK seas
Summary: Directive’s requirements
Determination of Good Environmental Status – 2012
•11 high level descriptors of GES set out in the Directive
• Member States to set out how GES will be defined for their marine waters by 2012
• Common criteria and standards to underpin GES across the EU to be agreed with Commission and other Member States by 2010
“Concentrations of contaminants are at levels not giving rise to pollution
effects”
“Populations of all commercially exploited fish and shellfish are within safe
biological limits”
“Biological diversity is maintained”
Healthy Seas
Desc 1 Biodiversity
Desc 2 Invasive Species
Desc 5 Eutrophication
Clean Seas
Desc 8 Contaminants & pollution
Desc 10 Marine Litter
Habitats
Desc 6 Seafloor integrity
Desc 7 Hydrography
Desc 11 Energy
Productive Seas
Desc 3 Sustainable commercial species
Desc 9 Fish / shellfish hygiene
Desc 4 Food webs
Group Platform Data return Physical Chemical Biological
Temp.
Salinity
SPM
Waves
Light
Nutrients
Oxygen
Phytopl.
Zoopl.
Fish
GKSS FerryBox RT + + + + + + RWS R.V + + + + + + IMR R.V. + + + + + + +
SAHFOS SOOP – CPR + + R.V. +
SmartBuoy NRT + + + + + + +
Cefas
WaveNet Buoy NRT + + Ifremer Marcoast Products NRT + + +
BSH R.V + + + + + + MUMM Marcoast Products NRT + + + NIOZ FerryBox NRT + + + + + + NIVA FerryBox RT + + + + + +
Descriptors of GES 7,11 7 7 5 5 1,2,4,5 1,2,4 1,2,3,4 Characteristics of marine waters 1,2,3,4,5,9 1,4,5 1,4,5,6,7 1,4 1,4,5 1,4 1,4 9
Mapping MSFD descriptors to current observations in the North Sea
Desc 1 Biodiversity
Desc 2 Invasive Species
Desc 5 Eutrophication
Desc 8 Contaminants & pollution
Desc 10 Marine Litter
Desc 6 Seafloor
Desc 6 Seafloor
Desc 7 Hydrography
Desc 11 Energy
Desc 3 Commercial species
Desc 9 Fish shellfish hygiene
Desc 4 Food webs
The challenge:
To harmonise our observationsof the North Sea in order to assess the ecological status
Questions:
Is further R&D required?
Is the existing instrumentation sufficient?
How do we communicate with policy makers in the next 12 months?
Desc 5 Eutrophication
Desc 5 Eutrophication
Desc 5 Eutrophication