Offshore benthic communities are in good status (HELCOM indicator: http://www.helcom.fi/Core%20Indicators/State%20of%20the%20soft-bottom%20macrofauna%20community%20HELCOM%20core%20indicator%202018.pdf). The HELCOM assessment was made under D5 for benthic macrofauna, but here the indicator is used for the entire Finnish sea area.

The indicator has sub-basin specific thresholds but here the indicator is used for the entire Finnish marine area.Offshore benthic communities are in good status in terms of regional species richness (beta diversity).

Coastal water benthic communities are not in good state: only 25% of inner and 30% of outer coastal waters are in GES.

All the four phytoplankton indicators were used to support the assessment. They gave similar results: phytoplankton species composition has changed and diversity declined.

HELCOM indicator gives the status for the Baltic Sea and its sub-regions and the national indicator gives some extra information abut the species trends in the Finnish marine area.

The indicator for the coastal cyprinid fish meets the area-specific thresholds in 1 of 8 assessment areas in Finland. See HELCOM indicator: http://www.helcom.fi/baltic-sea-trends/indicators/abundance-of-coastal-fish-key-functional-groups/

The indicator for the coastal piscivore fish meets the area-specific thresholds in 8 of 8 assessment areas in Finland. See HELCOM indicator: http://www.helcom.fi/baltic-sea-trends/indicators/abundance-of-coastal-fish-key-functional-groups/

HELCOM indicator gives the Baltic wide result and the national indicator gives additional results and trends over the Finnish marine area.

HELCOM indicator gives the assessment result for the region. The national indicator gives additional information from the Finnish marine area.

HELCOM indicator gives the status for the Baltic Sea and its sub-regions and the national indicator gives some extra information abut the species trends in the Finnish marine area.

Cod SSB is in good status in the eastern stock area (ICES SD 25-32). See HELCOM assessment: http://stateofthebalticsea.helcom.fi/biodiversity-and-its-status/fish/#commercial-fish-species-in-the-open-sea. The indicator refers to the ICES stock assessment but is calculated as annual ratios with the threshold over the assessment period following the HELCOM biodiversity assessment (http://stateofthebalticsea.helcom.fi/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/HELCOM_Thematic-assessment-of-biodiversity-2011-2016_pre-publication.pdf).

Herring SSB is in GES in the Gulf of Bothnia stock (ICES SD 30-31) and the Baltic Proper Stock (ICES SD 25-29, 32) both indicate good status (see D3C2 outcomes in these assessment areas). The indicator is calculated from the ICES stock assessments as annual ratios with the stock thresold and then averaged following the HELCOM assessment: http://stateofthebalticsea.helcom.fi/biodiversity-and-its-status/fish/#commercial-fish-species-in-the-open-sea.

Sprat SSB is in good status in the stock area (entire Baltic Sea). The indicator refers to the ICES stock assessment but is calculated as annual ratios with the threshold over the assessment period following the HELCOM biodiversity assessment (http://stateofthebalticsea.helcom.fi/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/HELCOM_Thematic-assessment-of-biodiversity-2011-2016_pre-publication.pdf).

The HELCOM indicator has threshold values ofr each sub-basin. For food webs it is used for the entire Finnish Marine area.

The HELCOM indicator gives subbasin specific results but these are looked under this criterion for the entire Finnish marine area.

The risk is indicated as the HELCOM core indicator has high variability for unknown reasons. This assessment results is based on the HELCOM data but assessed by the Finnish indicator which calculated through a model and thus it differs sligthly from the HELCOM result.