Joint report of the ICES Advisory Committee on Fishery Management and the Advisory Committee on the Marine Environment, 1994

This report represents the first ICES advice issued jointly by the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Management (ACFM) and the Advisory Committee on the Marine Environment (ACME). The advice was generated mainly at a joint meeting of the ACFM and ACME and is based on the work of the Working Group on Ecosystem Effects of Fishing Activities (WGECO) which is a working group answering to both of the Advisory Committees. This joint meeting represents a milestone in that these two Committees have not previously met together. It is, however, anticipated that increasing concern over ensuring ecologically sound practices in the management of living resources in the sea will generate requests for ICES advice in the future which will require input from both of the Advisory Committees. Such advice will be presented in joint reports from the ACFM and ACME.