The Workshop on guidance on how pressure maps of fishing intensity contribute to an assessment of the state of seabed habitats (WKFBI), chaired by Adriaan Rijnsdorp (the Netherlands), met at ICES Headquarters on 31 May 1 June 2016. The Workshop was attended by 28 participants from 10 countries, including representatives from various ICES Working Groups, two representatives from the fishing industry and one from DG Environment. The task of the workshop was to evaluate the information that is required to assess the state of seabed habitats (high resolution data on the trawling intensity by métier, maps of seabed habitats, information on the sensitivity of seabed habitats for bottom-trawling pressure) and prepare a guidance document on how fishing pressure can be used to develop indicators of the state of seabed habitats.
"Report
of the Workshop on guidance on how pressure maps of fishing intensity
contribute to an assessment of the state of seabed habitats (WKFBI)"
