| Title: |
Development, Evaluation and Implementation of a standardised Fish-based Assessment Method for the Ecological Status of European Rivers (FAME): Leaflet
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| Resource Type: |
document --> public information
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| Country: |
EU Projects
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| Year: |
2004 |
| Availability: |
Fame Consortium, Fame Leaflet
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| Author 1/Producer: |
Fame Consortium
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| Author / Producer Type: |
EC Project
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Receptor: Ecological
Diffuse pollution-->Monitoring
Groundwater protection-->Groundwater processes-->Groundwater processes overview
Water resources and their management -->Stresses, quality and ecological status
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| Short description: |
The European Union has taken an ambitious course in water policy
towards ecologically-orientated, sustainable management of
water bodies by enacting the Water Framework Directive (WFD), in
December 2000. Member States shall protect, enhance and restore
all surface water with the aim of achieving good ecological status
within 15 years. For rivers four biological quality elements serve as
indicators of the ecological status (phytoplankton, macrophytes and
phytobenthos, benthic invertebrate fauna, fish fauna). The principle
behind the assessment of ecological status is to measure the deviation
of the current situation from (nearly) undisturbed river-type-specific
reference conditions and to assign the correct quality level in a
5-tiered scheme formulated in the WFD.
However, appropriate and standardised methods to assess ecological
status are still lacking. Currently, European countries use very
different fish-based methods, or have not yet included fish in routine
monitoring programmes for such an assessment. Thus, the successful
implementation of the WFD depends heavily on the provision of
more specific, robust methodological and standardised tools. Against
this background the aim of FAME was to develop, evaluate and implement
a fish-based method for assessing the ecological status of
rivers in a coherent and standardised manner throughout Europe.
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Submitted By:
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Dr Stefan Gödeke WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 23/08/2009
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