Member State report / Art10 / 2018 / D1-R / Netherlands / NE Atlantic: Greater North Sea

Report type Member State report to Commission
MSFD Article Art. 10 Environmental targets (and Art. 17 updates)
Report due 2018-10-15
GES Descriptor D1 Reptiles
Member State Netherlands
Region/subregion NE Atlantic: Greater North Sea
Reported by Rijkswaterstaat Centre for Water management, Ministry of infrastructure and the environment
Report date 2019-04-15
Report access XML_ART10_201904091515.xml

Target code
ANSNL-D1T4
ANSNL-D1T8
Target description
Implementation of mitigation measures in the context of the 2012 Porpoise Protection Plan, including: - By-catch monitoring and research into the application of mitigation measures (pingers) - Preventing or reducing the harmful effects of underwater noise on porpoise populations (NB Act) - Furthe...
Further research into cumulative effects in OSPAR
Feature(s)
  • All mammals
  • Ecosystems, including food webs
  • Extraction of, or mortality/injury to, wild species (by commercial and recreational fishing and other activities)
  • Small toothed cetaceans
  • Extraction of, or mortality/injury to, wild species (by commercial and recreational fishing and other activities)
  • Small toothed cetaceans
GES components
  • D1C1 Mortality rate from incidental by-catch
  • D1C2 Population abundance (1.2, 1.2.1)
  • D1C1 Mortality rate from incidental by-catch
  • D1C5 Habitat for the species
Timescale
202407
202407
Update date
201807
201807
Update type
Same as 2012 definition
Same as 2012 definition
Marine reporting unit
  • ANS-NL-MS-1
  • ANS-NL-MS-1
Element
Phocoena phocoena
Phocoena phocoena
Element 2
Parameter
Abundance
Distribution (spatial)
Mortality rate / Mortality rate from fishing (F)
Mortality rate / Mortality rate from fishing (F)
Parameter - other
Target value
1.0
1.0
Value achieved - upper
0.58
0.58
Value achieved - lower
Value unit
Other
percentage
percentage
Value unit - other
Trend indicator
trend indicator
Target status
Target achieved
Target achieved
Assessment period
1994-2016
2013-2013
2013-2013
Target assessment description
The censuses of small cetaceans in European Atlantic waters (scans 1994, 2005 and 2016) show stable trends.
On an estimated abundance of 345.400 harbour porpoises in 2013 in the ICES area of the North Sea against the 2000 animals surrounding the effects of entanglement in commercial nets. The estimated by-catch rate for the area where the Dutch North Sea is included lies between 0,36-0.58 %.
At OSPAR assessment, a by-catch percentage of less than 1 % was established.
Related indicator
Related measures
  • ANSNL-M005
  • ANSNL-M039
  • NotApplicable