REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF

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Contents

Executive Summary 1

1 Opening of the meeting . 4

2 Adoption of the agenda . 4

3 Appointment of Rapporteurs. 4

4 REGNS integrated assessment of the North Sea 4

5 Assess the amount of biological effects data on the ICES database and develop a means to

encourage further submissions as well as the use of the data 5

6 Review progress with the TIMES 7

7 Consider progress with activities: i) BEQUALM, ii) EU FIRE Project iii)

Prestige oil spill, and iv) BSRP/Baltic activities .. 10

7.1 BEQUALM 10

7.2 EU FIRE Project.. 12

7.3 Consider progress with national activities pertaining to the Prestige oil spill . 13

7.4 Review BSRP/Baltic activities . 13

8 Review the use of background responses in biological effects 14

9 WGBEC to consider and assess the long term impact of oil spills on marine and coastal life as

requested from OSPAR and provide a guidance document on the use of biological effects

techniques for oil spill situations .. 15

9.1 Background. 16

9.2 Strategy for using biological effects methods 17

9.3 Selection of appropriate target species . 19

9.4 Confounding factors .. 20

9.5 Selection of appropriate biological effects techniques . 20

10 Provide expert knowledge to the ICES Data Centre as appropriate . 23

11 Evaluate the WKIMON 2006 workshop and feedback from SIME (Feb 2006 meeting) 24

12 Assess the development of the CEMP Guidelines.. 28

12.1 Respond to WKIMON/SIME: Are biological effects methods appropriate to meet the

requirements of the OSPAR JAMP?; and.. 28

12.2 What methods need to be developed? 28

12.3 Respond to WKIMON: review integrated methods to assess effects on biota from lindane and

BFRs. 33

12.4 Respond to WKIMON: Review of comet assay and is application 34

12.5 Respond to WKIMON: Compare across species (12e) and 35

12.6 Selection of species, gender and size range (12f) 35

12.7 Respond to WKIMON: Review background levels for ALA-D.. 36

13 Assess the development of the CEMP 36

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14 Any other business; Review progress with 1) genomics and proteomics 2)

nanotechnology, 3) 2-tier approach to monitoring, and 4) amphipod decline in the Baltic 36

14.1 Review progress with genomics and proteomics. 36

14.2 Review progress with nanotechnology. 38

14.3 2-tier biomarker approach to monitoring. 39

14.4 Amphipod decline and crash in the Baltic .. 40

15 Joint discussions with WGSAEM and WGMS 42

15.1 WGBEC terms of reference item j: Development of assessment criteria and integrated

assessment 42

15.2 WGBEC used the opportunity to meet with WGSAEM to initiate an assessment of imposex

data on the ICES database. 42

15.3 WGBEC terms of reference k. (WGMS Agenda item 4): Passive samplers: review the

response of the WGBEC to WGMS suggestions for areas of cooperative work on (bio)availability

and related issues to report on opportunities for cooperative work.. 44

15.4 WGBEC terms of reference l; discuss and report back to ACME on potential contributions for

the ecosystem overview of the advisory reports WGRED reports of 2005 and 2006 46

16 Recommendations and action list. 47

16.1 Recommendations .. 47

17 Adoption of the report and closure of the meeting 49

Annex 1: List of participants 52

Annex 2: WGBEC Terms of reference 2005 .. 54

Annex 3: WGBEC draft agenda. 55

Annex 4: List of Rapporteurs .. 57

Annex 5: List of documents .. 58

Annex 6: WGBEC draft resolutions 60

Annex 7: Progress with national activities pertaining to the Prestige oil spill (Agenda Item 7.3) .. 62

Annex 8: Provide expert knowledge to the ICES data centre as appropriate (Agenda item 10). 68

Annex 9: Assessment of temporal trends in imposex (Agenda Item 15) .. 71

Annex 10: A regional assessment of VDSI in dogwhelks from Sullom Voe and Yell Sound (Agenda

item 15) . 75