Report of the Study Group on Integration of Economics, Stock Assessment and Fisheries Management (SGIMM)

The Study Group on Integration of Economics, Stock Assessment and Fisheries Man-agement (SGIMM) had its first meeting at ICES headquarters in Copenhagen from 14 to 17 June 2011. The group continued the work of the workshop on Introducing Cou-pled Ecological-Economic Modelling and Risk Assessment into Management Tools (WKIMM, ICES 2010). Ecological-economic modelling in fisheries science is increas-ingly applied and builds on interdisciplinary expertise from natural and social sci-ences. A mutual understanding of methodologies and approaches is needed to develop realistic integrated models, including the ecological and economic interac-tions.