Report of the Workshop to plan an integrated monitoring Programme in the North Sea in Q3 (WKPIMP)

The workshop to plan an integrated monitoring programme in the North Sea in Q3 (WKPIMP) met on 22-26 February 2016 at ICES HQ, in Copenhagen, Denmark.Integrated data collection means that the data collected relate to each other, and that the set of data collected adds value to the separate components. Integrated data col-lection may save more time and/or money and/or provide more information for the same amount of money than only improved coordination of data collection.