| Summary: | Cephalopod International Advisory Council Conference, Cephalopods in the Anthropocene: Multiple Challenges in a Changing Ocean, April 2-8, 2022, Sesimbra, Portugal Human pressures on marine ecosystems have increased worldwide. Different legislation has been implemented to better manage these pressures with the aim of a more sustainable exploitation of the oceans. One of the most important pieces of legislation is the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), which came into force in 2008 and aims to obtain or maintain the so called ‘Good Environmental Status’ of all European seas by 2020. Amongst the elements considered are, marine litter and underwater noise, marine biological diversity, and marine habitats. However, the assessment of the living marine species has so far focused mainly on marine fish, marine mammals and sea birds. Although cephalopods are key components in marine ecosystems because they play an important role in fisheries, food webs and biodiversity. For the past ten years, cephalopods have been incompletely or not at all considered in assessments within the MSFD by the Member States of their respective marine areas. This poster is intended to present the current status of the assessment of Good Environmental Status of cephalopods in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea and to examine possible reasons for the lack of assessment of this ecologically and commercially important group. To fill this assessment gap, existing indicators, which have been used for several years to assess fish stocks are proposed, along with potential new cephalopod-specific indicators for a relative assessment No
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