IBEFish: Interaction between Environment and Fisheries − a Challenge to Management
Personnel
External Partners
SYKE − Finnish Environment Institute (coordinator)
IFM − Institute for Fisheries Management
University of Newcastle
University of Gothenborg
Status
EU 6th framework programme
Duration
12/2006 − 08/2007
Outline
IBEFish has two objectives:
- to share the results and theoretical understandings gained in past projects with regard to the ecosystem approach in fisheries management, with a special focus on the role of participation in integrated management of the interaction between environment and fisheries; and
- to make practical recommendations for improving fisheries management towards an ecosystem-based approach especially emphasizing the need for an enhanced knowledge-base, legitimacy and trust-building in the management.