Fact sheet for HELCOM MPA 249 - Centrale Storebælt og Vresen

General information of MPA Centrale Storebælt og Vresen, Denmark

Scientific nameAscending	English name	Species group	Species status	Does the species justify the site's designation as an MPA?	Performed monitoring	Authorities responsible for monitoring	HELCOM Red List category	Link to Species Information Sheet (SIS)	Link to WORMS
Phocoena phocoena (Western Baltic subpop)	Harbour porpoise	Mammals	not reported	Yes	regular monitoring	MPA management organization	VU	SIS	WORMS
Somateria mollissima	Common eider	Birds	not reported	Yes	regular monitoring	MPA management organization	VU	SIS	WORMS
Sterna sandvicensis	Sandwich tern	Birds	not reported	Yes	regular monitoring	MPA management organization	LC	SIS	WORMS
Sternula albifrons	Little tern	Birds	not reported	Yes	regular monitoring	MPA management organization	LC	SIS	WORMS

Code (HD Annex 1)	Biotope complex name	Does the biotope complex justify the site's designation as an MPA?	Performed monitoring	Authorities responsible monitoring	HELCOM Red List category	Link to Biotope Complex Information Sheet (BIS)
1170	Reefs	Yes	regular monitoring	MPA management organization	VU	BIS
1210	Annual vegetation of drift lines	Yes	no monitoring program	not reported	-	-
1220	Perennial vegetation of stony banks	Yes	regular monitoring	MPA management organization	-	-

Pressure (list according to MSFD Annex III revision document, May 2015)	Inside or outside the MPA	Intensity (low, medium, high)	Past, current or potential future pressure
Disturbance or damage to seabed	inside	not reported	-
Input of nutrients and organic matter	inside	not reported	-
Disturbance of species	inside	not reported	-
Introduction or spread of non-indigenous species	inside	not reported	-