1. By-catch work at ICES Lara Salvany,
Professional Officer, Environment advice
ICES
Hello and welcome. WKBEPRESS , which takes place as two workshops, today and later next year, covers ground very familiar to you all - the need to produce viable pressure indicators which will ultimately used to assess good environmental status under descriptor 6 (seabed integrity), and descriptor 1 (seabed habitats). Recent EU funded project have made advances in the cataloguing  of human activities and their associated pressures on the benthic environment.  What WKBEDPRESS aims to do is build on your work, and that of others, by identifying the physical disturbance data flows, by region and subdivision, that are required to service the requirements of the ultimate GES Decision

2. Short introduction to:
ICES
bycatch work at ICES
Future work

6. ICES Advisory Process

7. ICES work on bycatch Expert Groups
WGBYC: Bycatch of Protected Species
JWGBIRD: SeaBird Ecology
WGMME: Marine mammal ecology
WGEF: Elasmobranch Fishes
WGCATCH: Commercial catches
Advice regarding the impact of fisheries on the ecosystem
Annual advice on Bycatch of protected and potentially vulnerable marine vertebrates
Fisheries overviews and ecosystem overviews

8. 1. Working Group on Bycatch of Protected Species (WGBYC)
Co-Chairs: Sara Königson, Kelly Macleod
WGBYC collates and assesses information on bycatch monitoring and assessment for protected species, including mammals, birds, turtles, and rare fish.
ICES issues a data call (from 2017) on from monitoring/sampling effort, fishing effort and bycatch incidents in protected species.
Annual advice to EC on bycatch of protected species (PETS)

10. Bycatch work at ICES- ways forward
ICES intends increasing the quantitative nature of ICES advice on bycatch in the near future and include these in the fisheries overviews.
Continue develop and improve the ICES data call on bycatch
Improve fishing effort data
Cooperation with other WG (WGCATCH)

11. ICES Working Group on Marine Mammal Ecology (WGMME)
Chair: Anders Galatius, Anita Gilles
Report on seal and cetacean population abundance, population/stock structure, management frameworks (including indicators and targets for MSFD assessments), and anthropogenic threats to individual health and population status.....
Focus on bycatch ​​​

12. Joint OSPAR/HELCOM/ICES Working Group on Seabirds
Report 2018: Progress on assessing bycatch mortality of marine birds in the NE Atlantic and Baltic
as part of the preparation for the joint OSPAR-HELCOM workshop for incidental bycatch
Seabird bycatch is currently a candidate indicator under OSPAR and a core indicator under HELCOM, but
these indicators are not yet operational, largely due to lack of comprehensive data on seabird bycatch in both the NE
Atlantic and Baltic Sea.