Lead Organization: Helsinki Commission HELCOM, Finland
Duration: 2013 - 2015
ICES contact: Neil Holdsworth, Head of Data and Information
Project objectives:
- Develop integrated environmental monitoring in the Baltic to support the MS in implementing HELCOM BSAP and the MSFD;
- Provide input to the development of online HELCOM monitoring manual (cataloguing current monitoring);
- Focusing on gaps (fisheries, seals and seabirds, NIS, benthic habitats, coordination in research vessel use) provide recommendations for coordinated monitoring.