EU Common Fisheries Policy reform: co-production of science and policy

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Scientific knowledge that EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) needs is frequently unavailable until the political process itself creates the incentives for generating it. This regulatory or policy oriented science has specific goals, tasks institutions, and time-frames together with an accountability framework. The concept of co-production of knowledge developed by social sciences is explaining how scientific knowledge both embeds and is embedded in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses. To maintain productive and dynamic relationships, ICES as a boundary organization needs to be able to put scientific and political elements together. In doing so ICES contributes to the maintenance of a productive crossfertilisation between science and politics