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ICES NAFO Joint Working Group on Deep-Water Ecology (WGDEC) ICES/NAFO JOINT WORKING GROUP ON DEEP-WATER ECOLOGY (WGDEC) VOLUME 2 | ISSUE 62 ICES SCIENTIFIC REPORTS RAPPORTS SCIENTIFIQUES DU CIEM ICES INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE SEA CIEM COUNSEIL INTERNATIONAL POUR L’EXPLORATION DE LA MER 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] The material in this report may be reused for non-commercial purposes using the recommended cita- tion. ICES may only grant usage rights of information, data, images, graphs, etc. of which it has owner- ship. For other third-party material cited in this report, you must contact the original copyright holder for permission. For citation of datasets or use of data to be included in other databases, please refer to the latest ICES data policy on ICES website. All extracts must be acknowledged. For other reproduction requests please contact the General Secretary. This document is the product of an expert group under the auspices of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea and does not necessarily represent the view of the Council. ISSN number: 2618-1371 I © 2020 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ICES Scientific Reports Volume 2 | Issue 62 ICES/NAFO JOINT WORKING GROUP ON DEEP-WATER ECOLOGY (WGDEC) Recommended format for purpose of citation: ICES. 2020. ICES/NAFO Joint Working Group on Deep-water Ecology (WGDEC). ICES Scientific Reports. 2:62. 188 pp. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.7503 Editors Laura Robson Authors James Albrecht • Lindsay Beazley • Andreia Braga-Henriques • Paco Cardenas • Marina Carreiro-Silva • Ana Colaço • Konstantin Fomin • Neil Golding • Kerry Howell • Jeroen Ingels • Georgios Kazanidis • Ellen Kenchington • Igor Manushyn • Lenaick Menot • Anna Metaxas • Pål Mortensen • Steinunn Hilma Olafsdottir • Covadonga Orejas • Carlos Pinto • Laura Robson • David Stirling • Sebastian Valanko • Ida Vee • Rui Vieira • Les Watling ICES | WGDEC 2020 | I Contents i Executive summary .......................................................................................................................iii ii Expert group information ..............................................................................................................iv 1 Opening of the meeting ................................................................................................................ 6 2 Adoption of the agenda ................................................................................................................. 7 Supporting Information ................................................................................................................. 7 3 Collate new information on the distribution of vulnerable habitats and important benthic species and communities in the North Atlantic and adjacent waters, archive appropriately using the ICES VME Database, and disseminate via the Working Group report and ICES VME Data Portal – ToR [a] ................................................................................... 9 3.1 Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) terminology used by WGDEC ............................... 9 3.2 Background ...................................................................................................................... 9 3.3 Quality assurance of new VME data submissions .......................................................... 10 3.4 Data providers for ToR [a] .............................................................................................. 11 3.5 Absence data ................................................................................................................. 32 3.6 References ..................................................................................................................... 32 4 Provide all available new information on the distribution of vulnerable habitats (VMEs) in the NEAFC Convention Area. In addition, provide new information on location of habitats sensitive to particular fishing activities (i.e. vulnerable marine ecosystems, VMEs) within EU waters – ToR [b] ............................................................................................... 34 4.1 Areas with new, historical or resubmitted VME data .................................................... 34 4.2 Areas considered within the NEAFC Regulatory Area .................................................... 34 4.3 Areas considered within the NAFO Regulatory Area ..................................................... 40 4.4 Areas considered within the EEZs of various countries ................................................. 43 4.5 Analysis of the 2019 VMS submission from NEAFC, in order to provide information and maps on fisheries activities in the vicinity of vulnerable habitats (VMEs) ............................................................................................................................ 79 4.6 References ..................................................................................................................... 99 5 Develop standards for the provision of absence data and OSPAR habitat data to the ICES VME database, and utilise VME indicator data records to further develop and test kernel density estimation methods to assess VME likelihood – ToR [c] .............................................. 100 5.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 100 5.2 Absence data ............................................................................................................... 100 5.3 OSPAR data .................................................................................................................. 105 5.4 References ................................................................................................................... 109 6 Building on work initiated in 2019, work jointly with the WGMHM to test the use of habitat suitability models for mapping VME presence, to assess how such information could be incorporated when, for example, recommending proposals for VME closures – ToR [d] ....................................................................................................................................... 110 6.1 Clarification on change in ToR ..................................................................................... 110 6.2 Future use of Predictive Habitat Models within ICES advice ....................................... 110 6.3 VME element mapping ................................................................................................ 112 6.4 References ................................................................................................................... 115 7 Request from the European Commission to provide updates on representative taxa for 2 VME habitats, and advice on additional VME indicators to be included in Annex III of the EU deep-sea access regulations – ToR [e] ................................................................................. 116 7.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 116 7.2 Review against FAO criteria ......................................................................................... 117 7.3 Updates to VME habitat and representative taxa lists ................................................ 118 7.4 Deep-sea sponge aggregations .................................................................................... 128 7.5 Sea pen fields ............................................................................................................... 130 ii | ICES SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 2: 62 | ICES 7.6 Additional VME habitats .............................................................................................. 132 7.7 Conclusions .................................................................................................................. 132 7.8 The need for revising the criteria for selecting VME indicators and defining VMEs ............................................................................................................................ 135 7.9 Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................... 135 7.10 References ................................................................................................................... 135 Annex 1: List of participants........................................................................................................ 146 Annex 2: Resolutions .................................................................................................................. 148 Annex 3: Catches of Coldwater Corals and Sponges in the North Atlantic as reported in observations obtained by Russian fishing vessels in 2019 ........................................... 150 Annex 4: Updated VME habitat and indicator (representative taxa) lists following review against the FAO criteria ............................................................................................... 161 Annex 5: Updated list of VME habitats and representative taxa ................................................ 171 Annex 6: A suggestive list of deep-water VMEs and their characteristic taxa – updated Sept 2020 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