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Pollution Monitoring Programme (IMAP), the Programme was developed according to the MSFD
Good Environmental Status (GES) descriptors and new components were added.
Among the new planned studies in the period 2023-2025, monitoring of coral reefs and collar-
gens, which are important in climate change studies, monitoring of microplastics in biota within
the scope of zero pollution policy, development of “Open Sea Monitoring Programme” and use
of NEAT (Evaluation of Biodiversity and Pollutants Data Together) assessment tool in the prog-
ramme, monitoring of Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disruptors in seawater in a pilot area can
be listed.

“III. National Marine Monitoring and Assessment Symposium” was held on 06-09 December
2019 in order to share and disseminate the results obtained from the marine monitoring activi-
ties of the 2020-2022 monitoring period with a wider audience within a scientific event and to
create a national platform where they can be evaluated together with other scientific findings
and recommendations that can support these studies. The book of abstracts can be found in the
publications section of the web address of the MoEUCC https://ced.csb.gov.tr/.

Within the scope of the Integrated Marine Pollution Monitoring Programme, ecological qua-
lity status assessments of water management units (WMUs) are carried out every three years
according to the Water Framework Directive, where biological parameters (phytoplankton (as
Chlorophyll-a), macro flora and benthic invertebrates) and supporting parameters (nutrients, TP,
NOx (NO +NO -N) and SDD) are evaluated together. The classification map for 2021 is shown in
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Map 13 according to WFD colour codes. Blue colour represents very good quality, green repre-
sents good quality, yellow represents medium, orange represents poor and red represents poor
ecological quality.
In 2021, the quality of 1 WMU in the Mediterranean was determined as “poor” (AKD05: Mersin
Inner Bay) and 4 WMUs (AKD04_1: Karataş, AKD04_2: Karataş - Mersin East Entrance, AKD09:
Taşucu, AKD-18: Fethiye Göcek SEPA) were determined as “moderate”. The other WMUs with
“good” quality are AKD01 (Yayladağ - Samandağ), AKD02 (İskenderun Inner Bay), AKD07 (Erdem-
li), AKD08 (Silifke), AKD11_2 (Manavgat - Antalya), AKD12 (Kemer), AKD16 (Patara SEPA), AKD19
(Dalaman-Ortaca). The remaining 7 WMUs ((AKD03: Outside İskenderun Bay), AKD6 (Outside
Mersin Bay), AKD11_1 (Gazipasa - Manavgat), AKD13 (Kumluca - Finike), AKD14 (Kas - Kekova
SEPA), AKD15 (West of Kekova SEPA - East of Patara SEPA) and AKD17 (Fethiye Gocek SEPA Offs-
hore)) are of “very good” quality.

In 2021, in the Aegean Sea, it was observed that the inner part of EGE10 Izmir Bay is in poor eco-
logical condition. EGE5-1 (Güllük Bay), EGE 9-2 (Izmir Outer Bay-Gediz) and EGE 16-2 (Maritsa
Coastal Impact Area) are in poor ecological quality. The status of the other WMUs was assessed
as “moderate, good/very good” quality.
In 2021, our Black Sea coasts (KAR02 (Sakarya River influence area), KAR04 (Filyos-Bartın) and
KAR08 (Samsun coast) are of poor quality, KAR03: Ereğli-Zonguldak, KAR10: Yeşilırmak, KAR11:
Ünye-Fatsa, KAR13: Giresun, KAR15: Rize, KAR16: Hopa) are of poor quality. WMUs located on ot-
her coasts were assessed as “moderate” quality.
According to the 5-class assessment of WFD in the Marmara Sea in 2021, a significant part of the
WMUs are of medium and below (“poor/bad”) quality. South Entrance of the Dardanelles, South
of Tekirdağ-Gelibolu Peninsula, İmralı Island, Susurluk River Offshore (MAR07, MAR08, MAR22,
MAR02) are determined as good quality. Bandırma Bay, Gemlik Inner Bay, Büyükçekmece-Istan-
bul Strait, Izmit Inner Bay and Izmit Outer Bay are of poor ecological quality.

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