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Marine Strategy Framework Directive - Task Group 3 Report - Commercially exploited fish and shellfish
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2008/56/EC) (MSFD) requires that the European
Commission (by 15 July 2010) should lay down criteria and methodological standards to allow
consistency in approach in evaluating the extent to which Good Environmental Status (GES) is being
achieved. ICES and JRC were contracted to provide scientific support for the Commission in meeting
this obligation.
A total of 10 reports have been prepared relating to the descriptors of GES listed in Annex I of the
Directive. Eight reports have been prepared by groups of independent experts coordinated by JRC
and ICES in response to this contract. In addition, reports for two descriptors (Contaminants in fish
and other seafood and Marine Litter) were written by expert groups coordinated by DG SANCO and
IFREMER respectively.
A Task Group was established for each of the qualitative Descriptors. Each Task Group consisted of
selected experts providing experience related to the four marine regions (the Baltic Sea, the Northeast
Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea) and an appropriate scope of relevant
scientific expertise. Observers from the Regional Seas Conventions were also invited to each Task
Group to help ensure the inclusion of relevant work by those Conventions. This is the report of Task
Group 3 Commercially exploited fish and shellfish.JRC.DG.G.4-Maritime affair