Report of the Study Group on Socio-Economic Dimensions of Aquaculture (SGSA)

The 2nd meeting of the Study Group on Socio-Economic Dimensions of Aquaculture (Chair: Gesche Krause, Germany) was held in Stockholm (Sweden) between April 24-26 and was attended by 9 participants from France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Swe-den and United Kingdom (Annex 1), among which was one representative from the FAO in Rome. The objective of the meeting was to work on the Terms of Reference that were decided upon at the last meeting of the SGSA in Bremen 2011. The ToRs were addressed separately within subgroups, followed by plenary sessions where subgroup activities were discussed by all members of SGSA. Since the issues raised in the SGSA are a rather novel topic to ICES that pulled together scientists with a wide range of different scientific backgrounds, the group agreed on a common scope and perspective which the SGSA will have in the future. These are summarized in a back-ground chapter in the beginning of this report (Chapter 3).