EU request to ICES for review of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Descriptor 11 – Energy, including underwater noise

Preparatory to a revision of the Decision on criteria and methodological standards on good environmental status of marine  waters  (Commission  Decision  2010/477/EU)  the  European  Commission  has  set  up  a  process  to  produce  ascience-based evaluation and amendment proposal for the descriptors described in the Decision. 

ICES  was  asked  to  facilitate  this  process  regarding  descriptors  3  (Populations  of  commercially  exploited  fish  and  shellfish),  4  (Foodwebs),  6  (Seafloor  integrity),  and  11  (Energy,  including  underwater  noise).