IBEFish: Interaction between Environment and Fisheries - a Challenge to Management

IBEFish had two objectives: 1) to share the results and theoretical understandings gained in past projects with regard to the ecosystem approach in fisheries management, with a special focus on the role of participation in integrated management of the interaction between environment and fisheries; and 2) to make practical recommendations for improving fisheries management towards an ecosystem-based approach especially emphasizing the need for an enhanced knowledge-base, legitimacy and trust-building in the management.

Coordinator: Finnish Environment Institute