| | Report of the Working Group on Marine Habitat Mapping |
| | 5,72 | | MB | (WGMHM) |
| | 136 | | stron |
| | 3512 | | ID | International Council for the Explorations of the Sea |
| | 2006 | | rok |
| | Contents |
| | Executive summary. 1 |
| | 1 Opening of the meeting . 3 |
| | 1.1 Appointment of Rapporteurs 3 |
| | 1.2 Terms of Reference .. 3 |
| | 2 Adoption of the agenda . 3 |
| | 3 International programmes.. 3 |
| | 3.1 Progress of international mapping programmes . 3 |
| | 3.1.1 The OSPAR priority habitat mapping programme .. 3 |
| | 3.1.2 The Interreg MESH programme for north-west Europe 5 |
| | 3.1.3 The Interreg BALANCE programme for the Baltic Sea 7 |
| | 3.1.4 IASC working group for Arctic Coastal Biodiversity Assessment (ACBIO) 8 |
| | 3.1.5 Update on development of the EEA’s EUNIS habitat classification 9 |
| | 3.2 Habitat maps of the North Sea. 9 |
| | 3.2.1 The EEA’s EUNIS marine habitat map of the North Sea.. 10 |
| | 3.2.2 The MarGIS habitat map for the German North Sea 10 |
| | 3.2.3 UKSeaMap: the mapping of seabed marine landscapes and water column features for UK |
| | seas. 10 |
| | 3.2.4 MESH modelled maps for Dutch, Belgian, French and UK waters . 11 |
| | 3.2.5 Conclusions .. 11 |
| | 3.3 Response to REGNS request for benthic habitat data 12 |
| | 4 Mapping strategies and survey techniques. 12 |
| | 4.1 Generic set of habitat mapping datasets .. 12 |
| | 4.2 Sources for habitat mapping datasets. 13 |
| | 4.3 Report of the SGASC relating to acoustic seabed classification . 15 |
| | 5 National programmes (National Status Reports) 15 |
| | 5.1 Canada.. 15 |
| | 5.2 USA 16 |
| | 5.3 Portugal 17 |
| | 5.4 Spain.. 18 |
| | 5.5 Ireland 18 |
| | 5.6 United Kingdom .. 19 |
| | 5.7 Germany .. 20 |
| | 5.8 Norway . 20 |
| | 5.9 Sweden . 21 |
| | 5.10 Denmark .. 22 |
| | 5.11 Poland 23 |
| | 5.12 Russia 23 |
| | 5.13 Finland 24 |
| | 6 Protocols and standards for habitat mapping.. 25 |
| | 6.1 Definitions of the terms habitat and marine landscape/seascape . 25 |
| | 6.2 Guidelines for habitat mapping 26 |
| | ii | ICES WGMHM Report 2006 |
| | 6.3 Calibrating acoustic survey systems .. 27 |
| | 6.4 Discovery and survey/method metadata standards . 27 |
| | 7 Uses of habitat mapping in a management context .. 28 |
| | 8 Recommendations and Actions . 29 |
| | 9 Adoption of the Report 30 |
| | 10 Close of Meeting.. 30 |
| | Annex 1: List of participants 31 |
| | Annex 2: WGMHM Terms of Reference 2006.. 34 |
| | Annex 3: Agenda for the meeting ICES Working Group on Marine Habitat Mapping Galway, Ireland |
| | 4-7 April 2006 37 |
| | Annex 4: BALANCE project overview.. 40 |
| | Annex 5: EUNIS North Sea EEA report .. 45 |
| | Annex 6: Generic specification for predictive habitat mapping datasets . 57 |
| | Annex 7: National Status Reports for 2006 . 59 |
| | Annex 8: National report for USA 75 |
| | Annex 9: National report for Portugal .. 79 |
| | Annex 10: National report for Ireland .. 82 |
| | Annex 11: National report for UK (Cefas) .. 98 |
| | Annex 12: National report for Denmark (use of GIS mapping).. 101 |
| | Annex 13: Mapping of the Danish exploited shellfish stocks. 105 |
| | Annex 14: National report for Finland 106 |
| | Annex 15: The terms habitat and marine landscape.. 112 |
| | Annex 16: Multibeam calibration procedures 115 |
| | Annex 17: Survey of Metadata Methods Original 126 |
| | Annex 18: Draft Terms of Reference for WGMHM 2007 .. 130 |
| | Annex 19: Recommendations and actions. 132 |