Report of the Joint OSPAR/HELCOM/ICES Working Group on Seabirds (JWGBIRD - outputs from 2015 meeting)

The Joint ICES/OSPAR/HELCOM Working Group on Seabirds met in Copenhagen 9– 13 November 2015. The meeting was chaired by Morten Frederiksen, Ian Mitchell and Volker Dierschke, and was attended by 21 members and invited experts representing eleven countries. The objectives of the meeting were to develop and implement indicators for seabirds under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, as well as to review and discuss seabird-related issues relevant to human uses of the sea. The meeting consisted of a series of interconnected workshops, where subgroups with floating membership discussed the group’s Terms of Reference. Report chapters were drafted by Term of Reference leads and collated by the chairs.