Wildlifehealth.dk survey the health status of the Danish wildlife continuously. The surveillance consist of both active and passive (necropsy of dead game submitted to Wildlifehealth.dk) and active (sampled on purpose to establish the health status of the species in a region) surveillance. Information from both surveillance programmes are used for research.

BITS is an international ICES coordinated survey, were Denmark gets appointed stations in Danish EZ zone as well as in international water in the Baltic. For every survey conducted a new list of stations is appointed and the area covered can vary between surveys. However, as a standard Denmark is conducting 18*2 days survey each year and this corresponds to 50 fishing stations and 80 plankton stations in the 1st quarter and similar in the 4th quarter survey. An international ICES manual is followed and a link to the newest version is added. DTU Aqua is participating in the ICES group (WGBIFS) coordinating the survey. http://www.ices.dk/marine-data/Documents/DATRAS%20Manuals/Addendum_1_WGBIFS_BITS_Manual_2011.pdf

Commercial vessels are selected randomly and success rate is recorded. Success rate is defined as the number of fishermen willing to participate in allowing the observers to come onboard. A new sampling system was introduced in 2011, where vessels are selected on a stratified random basis, based on last year’s data. For each métier and quarter a vessel selection spreadsheet has been computed and the change of selecting a vessel are weighted with the amount of trips conducted in the same quarter and area one year earlier. When a vessel is selected by the computer the observers are oblique to call the skipper to ask for the possibility to conduct an observer trip with his vessel. As the system is weighting the amounts of trips conducted by the vessel it is possible to select the same ship more than once within a quarter. The fishermen answers are registered in a log. If a skipper decisively refuses to have an observer on board he is not contacted again within that year even though the ship is selected again by the system. However, the ship is registered with the same answer. If the skipper says “no” but is given a more vague answer (try again later or it is not fitting very good right now) he will be called again the next time the vessel is being selected by the system.

In representative coastal areas, coordinated with the monitoring activities on contaminnant levels in fish.

The program including rationale for the geographic scope can be found here: http://naturstyrelsen.dk/naturbeskyttelse/national-naturbeskyttelse/overvaagning-af-vand-og-natur/novana-program/

The program including rationale for the geographic scope can be found here: http://naturstyrelsen.dk/vandmiljoe/overvaagning-af-vand-og-natur/ The monitoring program is developed for both the Water Framework directive and adapted and expanded for the Habitats directive. It monitors development, species composition and biodiversity on reefs at different depths. It therefore contributes to the monitoring of impacts of measures as well as establishes the basis for future environmental managerial decisions.

The Danish monitoring program for air quality and depositons is based on a few coastal fixed measurements stations where concentrations in air and wetdeposition is measured. The results from these measurements is in a simple way extrapolateed to cover the Danish land areas and the inner Danish waters. For organic cantaminants only measurents of wet deposition a to measurements sites is carried out.

The programme is set up in order to cover the whole country and therefore also for the reporting area. Descibed in chap. 3 in the description of the programme: http://naturstyrelsen.dk/media/nst/Attachments/NOVANA_2del.pdf