Report of the Joint ICES/COEXIST Stakeholder Workshop

The one day Joint ICES/COEXIST Workshop: Best Practice Guidelines for spatial planning to integrate fisheries, aquaculture and other uses in the coastal zone, stake-holder workshop was successfully held at the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), on 19 September, parallel with the ASC 2012, in Bergen. The meeting was chaired by Torsten Schulze (Germany), David Verner-Jeffreys (UK) and Carlos Vale (Portugal). Over 30 stakeholders from a variety of sectors, including aquaculture, fisheries, coastal zone management, tourism and energy, as well as 20 members from the Coex-ist project and ICES representatives, met for this workshop. Stakeholder and Coexist members from Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK were in attendance.