NA 119

DIN Standards Committee Water Practice

Project

Water quality - Guidance standard on freshwater mussel monitoring and assessment

Abstract

This document is intended to provide generic guidance applicable to a suite of mussel species in Europe. It will be based on best practice developed and used by experts in Europe and will describe approaches that individual countries have adopted for survey, data analysis and condition assessment. Its focus will be on the Family Unionidae, with only a brief reference to the small ‘pea clams' in the Family Sphaeriidae. In contrast to the published CEN standard on freshwater pearl mussel (EN 16859:2017), which is restricted to specific types of running waters in certain geographical regions of Europe), this new standard will cover a much wider range of methods and recommendations applicable to a diversity of geographical regions and habitats including streams, lakes, ponds and reservoirs of different sizes.

Begin

2023-07-17

WI

00230420

Planned document number

DIN EN 00230420

Project number

11904821

Responsible national committee

NA 119-01-03-05 UA - Biological methods  

Responsible european committee

CEN/TC 230/WG 21 - Invertebrates  

Contact

Joana Gericke

Am DIN-Platz, Burggrafenstr. 6
10787 Berlin

Tel.: +49 30 2601-2387
Fax: +49 30 2601-42387

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