This session
(http://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/asc/ASC2015/Pages/Theme-Session-P.aspx)
will take place at the ICES Annual Conference from 21 to 25 September in
Copenhagen (Denmark) and aims to discuss the implementation of the MSFD,
an issue increasingly ubiquitous in science of all EU countries that are
obliged to implement it.
Over the past few years, the implementation of the MSFD has become an
increasingly important issue of marine science across Europe, as the
state of marine ecosystems has been evaluated, good environmental status
(GES) definitions has been set and, the development of indicators for
its determination and monitoring programs have been developed. Future
challenges include the development of measures and management systems to
oversee the implementation of measures and monitor their success.
These efforts fit with the adoption of ecosystem assessment and
integrated management by European countries. Although various stages of
implementation are already complete, many issues need to be resolved and
many scientific questions have arisen. Topics covered by this session
include the appropriate definitions of good environmental status (GES);
the choice of appropriate indicators for, amongst others, non-indigenous
species and food webs; accounting for effects of climate change on
marine communities; designing effective monitoring programmes for
benthic communities and marine mammals; the mismatch of scale between
current regional fishery management and the local-scale impacts of
fishing; coping with uncertainty the role of novel (e.g. metagenetic)
techniques in measuring biodiversity; assessing GES; and management
measures to mitigate the cumulative impacts of human activities.
The submission of papers in this session is already open
(http://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/asc/ASC2015/Pages/ASC2015.aspx).
This is an excellent opportunity for all researchers from the entire
marine sciences community around the world to present their work and
discuss these matters of the utmost importance. __
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Antonina dos Santos
Diretora do Departamento do Mar e Recursos Marinhos
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Av. de Brasília, s/n
1449-006 Lisboa
Portugal
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