Project
Implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)
As holistic approach, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive poses a challenge to the scientific community: How to describe the state of the marine environment with 11 descriptors? We develop indicators, techniques in risk assessments, and integrated assessment frameworks.
Background and Objective
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) obligates EU Member States to achieve a Good Environmental Status (GES) of their marine waters by 2020. Within the MSFD, eleven descriptors of the environmental status are evaluated by indicators, which currently are not fully operational. We work on the operationalisation of fish-related indicators and will develop integrated assessment systems to combine the outcome of single indicators into the evaluation of the corresponding descriptor status. The first step in the implementation of the MSFD is to review the temporal and spatial availability of data for the identification and validation of potential indicators. During this stage, the main objective is the identification and validation of indicator species and ecosystem components. After the identification of indicators, the influences of human pressures on these indicators will be quantified by risk assessments using varying temporal and spatial scales. Finally, the risk assessments will be used to establish methods for integrated assessment of the marine ecosystems which will help policy makers to decide on alternative management scenarios.
Target Group
- National and international political authorities
- Scientific community (ICES)
Approach
We collaborate in national and international committees (BLANO, ICES, EU, OSPAR), provide advice to the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and conduct scientific studies (dynamic population models, data analysis, development of pressure & state indicators).
Data and Methods
- ICES DATRAS
- DCF data
- TI-Surveydata
- VMS-Data (provided by BLE)
Our Research Questions
- What is the good environmental status (GES)?
- By which indicators can GES be defined?
- How can the current environmental status be measured and assessed?
- How can single assessments of environmental status be combined and integrated?
Preliminary Results
- Development of indicators on size distribution within a stock, fishing impacts on benthic communities and state of fish communities
- Analysis of historic conditions of fish communities
- Methods for the evaluation of indicators
Links and Downloads
Thünen-Contact
Involved Thünen-Partners
Involved external Thünen-Partners
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Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie
(Hamburg, Deutschland) -
Bundesamt für Naturschutz BfN
(Bonn/Vilm, Deutschland) - Umweltbundesamt (UBA)
(Dessau-Roßlau, Deutschland)
Duration
4.2010 - 12.2027
More Information
Project status:
ongoing
Publications
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Rindorf A, Scarcella G, Armelloni E, Bartolino V, Bellido JM, Bolund E, Boulcott P, Campon-Linares V, Canal G, Caserman H, Coscia I, Fortibuoni T, Garnacho E, Giujarro B, Goncalves P, Griffiths C, Jacobsen NS, Kühn B, Maneiro I, Probst WN, et al (2024) Workshop to apply thresholds for the preselected indicators for MSFD D3C3 (WKD3C3THRESHOLDS). Copenhagen: ICES, v, 141 p, ICES Sci Rep 6(3), DOI:10.17895/ices.pub.25266580
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Rindorf A, Scarcella G, Armelloni E, Bartolino V, Bellido JM, Bolund E, Campon-Linares V, Canal G, Coscia I, Duskey E, Fortibuoni T, Garnacho E, Goncalves P, Griffiths C, Howell D, Jacobsen NS, Junquera S, Kidd P, Kühn B, Probst WN, et al (2024) Workshop to compare the indicators for CFP and MSFD D3 management objectives through simulations (WKSIMULD3). Copenhagen: ICES, iv, 165 p, ICES Sci Rep 6(4), DOI:10.17895/ices.pub.25266475
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Probst WN (2023) An approach to assess exploited fish stocks compliant to the requirements of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) including criterion D3C3. Ecol Indic 146:109899, DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.109899
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Probst WN, Lynam CP, Bluemel JK, Clarke M (2023) Assessing change in the occurrence of rare species using the binomial distribution. Ecol Indic 156:111084, DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.111084
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Bobowski BTC, Power A-M, Pierce GJ, Moreno A, Iriondo A, Valeiras J, Sokolova IM, Oesterwind D (2023) Cephalopods, a gap in the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive and their future integration. Mar Biol 170(3):26, DOI:10.1007/s00227-022-04148-2
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Rindorf A, Scarcella G, Armelloni E, Bolund E, Canal G, Cardinale M, Coscia I, Croll J, Ezgeta Balic D, Falsone F, Fortibuoni T, Galatchi M, Garnacho E, Giannoulaki M, Guijarro González B, Griffiths C, Grossmann J, Jacobsen NS, Junquera S, Probst WN, et al (2023) Workshop to scope and preselect indicators for criterion D3C3 under MSFD decision (EU) 2017/848 (WKD3C3SCOPE). Copenhagen: ICES, iii, 37 p, ICES Sci Rep 5(87), DOI:10.17895/ices.pub.23514930
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Armelloni EN, Bergström L, Canal G, Delaunay D, Foucher E, Galatchi M, Goncalves P, Grossmann J, Hekim Z, Sand Jacobsen N, Junquera S, Kreutle A, Ligas A, Maneiro I, Mirny Z, Müller MS, Probst WN, Raicevich S, Rowe O, Saks L, et al (2022) The second workshop on lists of commercial fish and shellfish species for reporting of MSFD D3 (WKD3LISTS2). Copenhagen: ICES, iii, 131 p, ICES Sci Rep 4(80), DOI:10.17895/ices.pub.21318255
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Probst WN, Stelzenmüller V, Rambo H, Moriarty M, Greenstreet SPR (2021) Identifying core areas for mobile species in space and time: A case study of the demersal fish community in the North Sea. Biol Conserv 254:108946, DOI:10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108946
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Probst WN, Kempf A, Taylor MH, Martinez I, Miller D (2021) Six steps to produce stock assessments for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive compliant with Descriptor 3. ICES J Mar Sci 78(4):1229-1240, DOI:10.1093/icesjms/fsaa244
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Belgrano A, Lynam CP, Probst WN, Thompson M, Doyle A, Brind'Amour A, Beauchard O, Piet GJ, Schratzberger M, Jacob U, Eerkes-Medrano D, Somerfield PJ, Laffargue P, Fu C, Ellingsen K, Garcia C, Couce E, Clarke M, Artigas F, Salter I, et al (2021) Working Group on Biodiversity Science (WGBIODIV). Copenhagen: ICES, 57 p, ICES Sci Rep 3(79), DOI:10.17895/ices.pub.8247
