WGCOMEDA - Report of the Working Group on Comparative Analyses between European Atlantic and Mediterranean marine ecosystems to move towards an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries

The ‘Working Group on Comparative Analyses between European Atlantic and Med-iterranean Ecosystems to move towards an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries (WGCOMEDA)’ is intended to be a collaborative platform of research with scientists form the Atlantic and Mediterranean working at different levels from population, through community to ecosystem level. The group was established in 2014 and works in cooperation with other groups within the ICES SCICOM Steering Group on the Re-gional Seas Programme (SSGRSP) such as ICES/HELCOM Working Group on Inte-grated Assessments of the Baltic Sea (WGIAB). The group (Chaired by Marta Coll, France, and Hilmar Hinz and Manuel Hidalgo, Spain) met for the first time in Barce-lona, Spain, 1–4 April 2014, with 20 scientists from European Atlantic and Mediterra-nean countries attended the meeting (Denmark, France, Germany, UK, Greece, Italy, Spain).