Duration: 2021-2025
Lead organization: Technical University of Denmark - DTU
ICES contacts:
Anne Cooper, Advice Department Professional Officer
Lise Cronne-Grigorov, Project Officer
SEAwise is a dynamic research programme aimed at understanding the current state of play of fisheries management across Europe and facilitating the widespread implementation of ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) in the region.
Through a targeted research programme, and in close collaboration with our stakeholder network, we will work to develop a fully operational, synthesised management advice tool that highlights the benefits – or potential trade-offs – of fisheries management decisions. To do this, SEAwise will identify and address the key challenges currently inhibiting EBFM.
Project objectives:SEAwise has four specific objectives, designed to target and resolve the key challenges faced by EBFM today.
- Build a network of stakeholders A network of stakeholders including advisory bodies, decision-makers, and scientists will be established to co-design key priorities and approaches to EBFM, ensuring that SEAwise generates long-term impact.
- Assemble a new knowledge base Scientific research and stakeholder insights will be collated to advance the best available information and provide a new knowledge base on European fisheries interactions with social, economic, and ecological priorities.
- Collate, develop, and integrate predictive models Innovative predictive models of fisheries interactions with social, economic, and ecological systems will be developed to evaluate management strategies within the context of changes in the environment and use of marine space.
- Provide ready-for-uptake advice Ready-to-use advice will be developed and provided for the implementation of EBFM within the Mediterranean, Western waters, the Baltic Sea, and the North Sea.
ICES role:
- Organization of ecosystem benchmark-type workshops to define quality requirements and review methods and applications of ecosystem effects on stock assessment, ecosystem effects of fisheries, mixed fisheries and spatial management
- Organization of training courses where teachers and materials are supplied by other SEAwise partners in collaboration with GFCM where possible
- Design of an online platform for interactive advice
