EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER

EIONET Workshop 22-23 May 2003 - Budapest

ETC/Water’s Work Package 2 on Indicators, data flows and databases :

The Inter-regional Forum – marine issues/fisheries issues Anna Maria Sàlama, ENEA -I

•Joint workshop (EEA-EC DG Fisheries-DG environment) on

"Tools for measuring (integrated) Fisheries Policy

aiming at a sustainable ecosystem "

in Brussels, October 28-29, 2002

• In order to:

1) support EEA’s mission to provide reliable assessments on the

state of the European environment based on information

comparable at regional level,

2) support EC policies on environmental integration and

sustainability,

3) acquire, supply and better manage the data and the integration

of indicator systems developed by the stakeholders active in the

fishery-aquaculture and environmental sectors,

• it was organised a

Experts of international, regional/national organisations, active in the fisheries-aquaculture sector were called to provide:

1) an overview of indicators development by their organisations and experiences of integration with environmental indicators

2) comments on the proposed EEA’s core set of fisheries/aquaculture indicators.

Participants came from:

•EU: EC DG Environment, EC DG Fisheries, EC EUROSTAT

•EEA: ETC/ WTR, ENEA, NCMR , NIVA Aquaplan;

•International organisations: FAO, ICES, OECD

•Regional organisations: BSSAP, EIFAC, IBSFC, NEAFC, SAC -GFCM;

•National organisations: ICRAM (I), IFREMER (Fr), SNBF (Se), NCMR (Gr),

•Non Governmental Organisations: EAFE (Fisheries Economist, Maritime Team

English Nature Conservation , IEEP, BirdLife International (UK partner of).

The Workshop tackled, in Subgroups, the following aspects : •Fisheries: fish stocks (marine capture fisheries only)•Fisheries/ aquaculture and environment•Fisheries/ aquaculture and socio-economics

Results

•Suggested revised fish-aquaculture Indicators

(see Table 3 of Summary Report :

http://eea.eionet.eu.int:8980/Public/irc/eionet-circle/irf/library

folder: Workshop on Fish/Aquaculture-Envir Indicators)

• Will to cooperate , within a Joint Fisheries Working Group on :

improvement of data collection systems and availability/streamlining on impact indicators (the least developed)

socio-economic and fish-stock indicators.

Set up of a small group of representatives of some of the

participating organisations to develop a proposal for converging

efforts and suggesting priorities for further work.

General statement: need for major interaction between the

scientific community and the other stakeholders (e.g. private sector

and commercial fisheries organisations) and, consequently,

integrated information deriving from them, preserving however the

scientific independence