Report of the Working Group on Large Marine Ecosystem Programme Best Practices (WGLMEBP)

The second meeting of the ICES Working Group on Large Marine Ecosystems Best Practices (WGLMEBP), co-chaired by Michael O’Toole and Jan Thulin, was held at the IOC/UNESCO headquarters in Paris on 12–13 July 2011. It was attended by 25 members representing senior scientists and project managers from several Large Ma-rine Ecosystems (LMEs) in Africa, Asia, Latin America and northern Europe, ICES, IOC, NOAA, FAO, GEF:IW LEARN and a number of international institutions from the USA, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, UK and Germany. The WGLMEBP meeting was held in conjunction with the 13th Annual Consultative Committee on Large Marine Ecosystems.