This paper highlights the importance of identifying fishing communities for fisheries and ecosystem-based management, which often focuses on fleets and ecological impacts rather than on the communities where fishers live and land their catches. Fishing communities are key to understanding the broader impacts and benefits of fishing, as they support many livelihoods in fleet and trade-related activities. Recogni...
Working Group on Balancing Economic, Social and Ecological Objectives in Integrated Assessments (WGBESEO) has two main objectives: (1) identifying objectives from legal and policy documents, and (2) understanding the implications derived from trade-offs among Economic, Social, Ecological and Institutional (ESEI) objectives. WGBESEO members are multidisciplinary professionals, including lawyers, political scient...
The Working Group on Social Indicators seeks to improve the integration of social sciences in ICES Ecosystem Overviews and Integrated Ecosystem Assessments through the development of culturally relevant social indicators. To advance progress on this, WGSOCIAL has broadly discussed the context of the social di-mension of fishing. This has led to coordination with other working groups within ICES and outside ICES...