Report of the Study Group on Risk Assessment and Management Advice (SGRAMA)

The ICES Study Group on Risk Assessment and Management Advice (SGRAMA) met at University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa from the 5–9 February 2007. This was the second meeting of the Study Group and the group started with the continuation of reviewing risk assessment frameworks and comparing these. Local participants presented the “Australian framework” for risk assessment (Fletcher, 2005) and also the local experience of using this framework for several risk assessments in an ecosystem approach setting (see Section 4.7.2. The work of the Study Group overlays to some extent with the EU project PRONE (see Section 8.2) and the progress of that project was summarized for the Study Group.