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ICES WGITMO REPORT 2009 ICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE ICES CM 2009/ACOM:25 Report of the Working Group on Intro- duction and Transfers of Marine Or- ganisms (WGITMO) 11 - 13 March 2009 Washington D.C., USA International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Conseil International pour l’Exploration de la Mer H. C. Andersens Boulevard 44–46 DK‐1553 Copenhagen V Denmark Telephone (+45) 33 38 67 00 Telefax (+45) 33 93 42 15 www.ices.dk [email protected] Recommended format for purposes of citation: ICES. 2009. Report of the Working Group on Introduction and Transfers of Marine Organisms (WGITMO), 11 ‐ 13 March 2009, Washington D.C., USA.. 220pp. For permission to reproduce material from this publication, please apply to the Gen‐ eral Secretary. The document is a report of an Expert Group under the auspices of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea and does not necessarily represent the views of the Council. © 2009 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ICES WGITMO REPORT 2009 i Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................ 1 1 Summary of WGITMO 2009 Meeting ........................................................................ 5 1.1 Terms of Reference ............................................................................................... 5 1.2 Meeting Attendance ............................................................................................. 5 2 WGITMO and WGBOSV combined Meeting Summary ....................................... 6 3 WGITMO Meeting Summary ..................................................................................... 8 3.1 Highlights of National Reports ........................................................................... 8 3.2 Status of OSPAR Report .................................................................................... 13 3.3 Status of 5 and 25 year reports (ToR e) ............................................................ 15 3.4 Status of Crassostrea gigas report (ToR f) .......................................................... 15 3.5 Development of joint projects with PICES WG 21 (ToR g) ........................... 15 3.6 Status of the impact of targeted fisheries on non‐indigineous species (ToR h) .................................................................................................... 16 3.7 Review of the appendices of the ICES Code of Practice (ToR i) ................... 17 3.8 Development of criteria for the creation of high‐low risk species lists (ToR j) ........................................................................................................... 17 3.9 Review of the use of the ICES Code of Practice in U.S. case study .............. 18 3.10 Climate Change ................................................................................................... 18 4 WGIMTO 2010 Terms of Reference ......................................................................... 20 Annex 1 List of Participants ............................................................................................... 23 Annex 2 Agenda of the March 2009 WGITMO meeting ............................................... 27 Annex 3 National Reports ................................................................................................... 31 Annex 4. ICES WGITMO Report 2009............................................................................ 143 Annex 5 REPORT Species Alert Report : Crassostrea gigas ...................................... 177 ICES WGITMO REPORT 2009 1 Executive Summary In 2009 the ICES Working Group on Introductions and Transfers of Marine Organ‐ isms (WGITMO) met in Washington, D.C., U.S.A with Judith Pederson, U.S.A. serv‐ ing as chair and Amy Williams, Canada, serving as rapporteur. The meeting venue was the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History with Gregory Ruiz, Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre as our host. Representatives from Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States of America attended the meeting. Synopsis of WGITMO and WGBOSV combined meeting Because the Working Group on Introductions and Transfers of Marine Organisms (WGITMO) and the Working Group on Ballast and Other Shipping Vectors (WGBOSV) share one half day of meetings, the following minutes cover the joint meeting first and the WGITMO meeting second reflecting the order of the meetings. The main issues for the 2009 WGIMTO and WGBOSV meeting were (1) the joint ef‐ fort with PICES WG 21 (the equivalent of both WGBOSV and WGIMTO), dan (2) is‐ sues related to hull and other hard surface vessel fouling where WGBOSV has taken the lead in drafting a Code of Practice. Synopsis of highlights of the National Reports This section highlights the new marine introductions of the National Reports and other important changes in the reporting ICES countries. Table 1 lists new marine species introductions reported in this year’s annual reports. Table 2 lists some species that have expanded their ranges and Table 3 list some single species identifications that were reported this year. Three countries that provided annual reports, Belgium, Germany and the U.S. did not report new species introductions. One aquaculture releases wa reported by the U.S. Adults of the shrimp Penaeus monodon were ob‐ served off the coast of North Carolina, but no reproducing population were found. This is the northern‐most sighting for this species which is from Guayana. Crassostrea gigas is also an aquaculture escape and is reported as range expansion in Irelans. More information is provided in the National Reports, Annex 3, including references to species not seen in various countries and general information on range expansions. 2 ICES WGITMO REPORT 2009 Table 1. List of marine species identified as new reports in the ICES National Reports Genus Species Common name Country Location notes European Carcinus maenas green crab Canada West Coast of Newfoundland Gulf of Finland, Aland Sea Arctic comb and Bothnian Sea, Baltic Mertensia ovum jelly Finland Sea Gulf of Finland, Bothnian Evadne anonyx cladoceran Finland Sea, Northern Baltic Sea Karlskrona, Southern Neogobius melanostomus round goby Sweden Sweden North of Skagen at 80-100 American fathoms) and North of Homarus americanus lobster Sweden Smögen cladoceran Gulf of Finland and Northern Evadne anonyx crustacean Sweden Baltic Sea European Swedish West Coast at velvet fiddler Maseskar, Ramsö and West Necora puber crab Sweden of Hallö marine Utgrunden and Yttre Telmatogon japonicus chironomid Sweden Stengrund Eastern Kattegat and Chaetoceros concavicornus diatom Sweden Skagerrak Eastern Gulf of Finland and Central Gulf of Riga, Baltic Paramysis intermedia mysid shrimp Estonia Sea Evadne anonyx cladoceran Estonia Northeast Baltic Sea United Harbors of Plymouth, Devon Didemnum vexillum sea squirt Kingdom and Holyhead, Anglesey United Plymouth and Poole Quay, Watersipora subtorquata bryozoan Kingdom Dorset Dinophysis sacculus Denmark Limfjord and Isefjord Peridinium quinquecorne Denmark Kattegat Mnemiopsis leidyi comb jelly Denmark Near Bornholm in the Baltic Neogobius melanostomus round goby Denmark Sea marine Bugula neritina bryozoan Ireland Details next year marine Tricellaria inopinata bryozoan Ireland Details next year Vistula River near Dikerogammarus villosus invertebrate Poland Wyszogrod Vistula River near bridge at Plock at down-stream of Proterorhinus marmoratus tubenose goby Poland Wloclawski Reservoir Paratenuisentis ambiguous parasite Poland Lake Lebsko (found in eels) Pleistophora muelleri microparasite Poland Piasnica River (in G. pulex) Nosema pontogammari microparasite Poland Vistula deltaic system scleractinian Cladocora debilis species Croatia Croatian part of Adriatic Sea Mediterranean endemic South of Lastovo Island and scleractinian southwest of Mljet Island Cladopsammia rolandi coral Croatia (Southern Adriatic) Lessepsian Pinctada radiata bivalve Croatia Northern Adriatic Sea Eastern Northern Adriatic Thysanoteuthis rhombus squid Croatia Sea ICES WGITMO REPORT 2009 3 Ostreopsis ovata dinoflagellate Croatia Northern Adriatic Sea Osmundea oederi red alga Italy Mar Piccolo of Taranto calcareous Taranto, Porto Cesareo, Paraleucilla magna sponge Italy Brindisi and Naples cephalaspidean Haminoea cyanomarginata mollusc Italy Saline Joniche Cambados, Galicia, Atlantic Bonamia exitiosa protozoa Spain Coast Palamos, Catalonia, Dictyota ciliolata brown alga Spain Mediterranean Coast Plocamium secundatum red alga Spain Mediterranean Coast A Coruna Bay, Galicia, Ulva pertusa green alga Spain Atlantic Coast Valencia, Mediterranean Branchiomma luctuosum annelid Spain Coast Cambados, Galicia, Atlantic Rapana venosa mollusk Spain Coast Arcade, Vigo Ria, Galicia Xenostrobus secures mollusk Spain and Atlantic Coast Table 2. Range expansions reported from 2008 National Reports. Genus Species Common Country Location notes name Chinese United Various areas in Southern Eriocheir sinensis mitten crab Kingdom England North Kent Coast and United Strangford Lough, Northern Bonamia ostreae pathogen Kingdom Ireland Caulerpa racemosa green algal Croatia Florida to North Carolina, miles/volitans throughout the Caribbean Pterois complex lion fish United States Island area Northern Chesapeake Bay; with quagga mussel western Dreissena polymorpha zebra mussel United States U.S. Necora puber crab Sweden Japanese Crassostrea gigas oyster Ireland Recruited to several locations Mnemiopsis leidyi
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