Guidelines for coastal fish monitoring.
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Coastal fish communities are influenced by a plethora of impacting variables, including human-induced pressures related to overexploitation, climate change, eutrophication, contaminants, habitat degradation, effects of trophic interactions and competition with non-indigeneous species (HELCOM 2018c). Although there is a general understanding on the influence of these pressures, little is known about their relative importance and local patterns. Because of the locality of the fish communities, variability between locations regarding which variables are the most important may also be expected. The aim of the current monitoring strategy is to monitor overall changes in coastal fish communities in relation to local and regional changes in the environment, and to support an indicator-based assessment of the status of coastal fish, reflecting potential effects of pressures such as climate, eutrophication, habitat degredation, trophic interactions and fishing. In relation to the effects of cl.....
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)14.4
Essential Ocean Variables (EOV)Fish abundance and distribution
Spatial CoverageBaltic Sea
CitationHELCOM (2019) Guidelines for coastal fish monitoring. Helsinki, Finland, HELCOM, 19pp. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-1827