Report of the ICES/HELCOM Working Group on Inetgrated Assessments of the Baltic Sea (WGIAB)

The  ICES/HELCOM  Working  Group  on  Integrated  Assessments  of  the  Baltic  Sea  (WGIAB) was set up as a forum for developing and combining ecosystem‐based management efforts for the Baltic Sea, and is intended to serve as a counterpart and support for the ICES Baltic Fisheries Assessment Working Group (WGBFAS) as well as  related  HELCOM  assessment  efforts  and  projects,  such  as  HELCOM  CORESET  and HELCOM FISH PRO. To this end, WGIAB has given itself three main tasks: 1 ) to  conduct  holistic  ecosystem  assessments  based  on  large  multivariatedatasets; 2 ) to consider the use of ecosystem modelling in the assessment framework; and 3 ) to develop adaptive management strategies for the different Baltic Sea ecosystem