Report of the ICES Advisory Committee on the Marine Environment, 2000

The ICES Advisory Committee on the Marine Environment (ACME) met at ICES Headquarters in Copenhagen twice in 2000, with the first meeting from 26 January to 2 February 2000 and the second from 5 to 10 June 2000. At the first of these meetings, the ACME conducted a scientific peer review of the OSPAR Quality Status Report 2000, prepared a report on the “Status of Fisheries and Related Environment of Northern Seas” for the Nordic Council of Ministers, and prepared a response to a request from the European Commission DG FISH. At the second meeting, the ACME prepared responses to the other requests made to ICES by the OSPAR Commission and the requests from the Helsinki Commission. This report contains these responses. In addition to responses to direct requests, this report summarizes the deliberations of ACME on topics for which advice was not directly requested but for which the ACME felt that there was information that would be of potential interest to the Commissions, ICES Member Countries, and other readers of this report.